Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 72 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
- circus
- one-sided love
- tramp
- unrequited love
- black and white
- silent film
- employer employee relationship
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp
Al Ernest Garcia
The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
Merna Kennedy
The Proprietor's Step-Daughter Merna, a Circus Rider
Harry Crocker
Rex, a Tight Rope Walker
- George Davis — A Magician
- Henry Bergman — An Old Clown
- Tiny Sandford — The Head Property Man
- John Rand — An Assistant Property Man
- Steve Murphy — A Pickpocket
- Albert Austin — Clown (uncredited)
- Chester A. Bachman — Cop (uncredited)
- Eugene Barry — Cop (uncredited)
- Jack Bernard — Man in Circus Audience (uncredited)
- Stanley Blystone — Cop (uncredited)
- Heinie Conklin — Clown (uncredited)
- Directed
- Charlie Chaplin
- Written
- Charlie Chaplin
Production
- Studio
- Charles Chaplin Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
