Pay Day
About Pay Day
Charlie Chaplin plays a laborer on a house under construction. On payday his wife wants the whole packet. He keeps enough to go out drinking. He gets home just in time to pretend he has woken up for work.
Cast & crew
More about Pay Day
Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, and edited the short. First National Pictures released it on April 2, 1922. Roland Totheroh photographed it. It is Chaplin's last two-reel short.
Themes
Making
The first reel is the building site. The second is the night out and the walk home before dawn.
Look
Roland Totheroh shot the construction-site gags and the night street.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Phyllis Allen plays the laborer's wife. Mack Swain plays the foreman. Edna Purviance plays the foreman's daughter.
- Sydney Chaplin plays a mustachioed workman, the laborer's friend, and a lunch-cart owner.
- Henry Bergman, Albert Austin, and Loyal Underwood are among the workmen.
Scenes
- The laborer hides part of his pay from his wife.
- He comes in at dawn and acts as if he is just getting up.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Pay Day (1922) by Charlie Chaplin.webm)
