Tango Tangles
About Tango Tangles
In a dance hall a drunk, a trombonist, and a clarinet player fight over the hat-check girl. Chaplin is the drunk, and he is not in the tramp costume. Ford Sterling is the trombonist. Roscoe Arbuckle is the clarinet player.
Cast & crew
More about Tango Tangles
Mack Sennett wrote, directed, and produced it for Keystone. Mutual distributed it. Frank D. Williams photographed. There was no script. Sennett took Chaplin, Sterling, Arbuckle, and Chester Conklin to a dance hall, turned them loose, and pointed a camera at them. Released March 9, 1914. It is the last film in which Sterling and Chaplin both appear. Sterling was leaving Keystone.
Themes
Making
Sennett wrote that they made the picture by turning the comics loose in a real dance hall.
Look
Frank D. Williams filmed them in the hall, not on a built set.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Chaplin wears no mustache, baggy pants, or big shoes.
- Minta Durfee and Sadie Lampe are billed with the three men.
- Sennett described the shoot in King of Comedy (1954).
- Chester Conklin is in the hall with them.
Scenes
- The drunk, the trombonist, and Arbuckle tangle over the girl.
Quotes
We took Chaplin, Sterling, Arbuckle and Conklin to a dance hall, turned them loose, and pointed a camera at them. They made funny, and that was it.
