Product Details

• Actors: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: RCF
• DVD Release Date: December 9, 2008
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001NFNTO0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,949 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Chaplin in drag, November 29, 2010

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This review is from: The Masquerader (1914) (DVD)

All Editorial Review Product Descriptions for RCF's red box discs are a c&p text that includes their "100 greatest classic films of all time" blurb. These mostly obscure works are hardly as advertised. Also, picture and sound quality depend on condition of unrestored source material. Good to fair is about average.


By the time THE MASQUERADER (aka "The Perfumed Lady") was released in 1914, Charlie Chaplin was really making a name for himself. He wrote/directed and starred in this one-reel story of a man who tries his hand at acting, keeps messing up during filming and gets himself fired. He returns to the studio disguised as the "Beautiful Stranger" and pulls off the charade successfully-- for a while. Eventually, the unfortunate guy in drag ends up at the bottom of a well!

Chaplin makes a very convincing woman here. He shares the bill with a comedian whose fame preceded his-- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, plus Fatty's first wife, Minta Durfee, Chester Conklin (the Keystone Cop with the walrus mustache) and Charley Chase, the star of a series of sophisticated comedy shorts in the last years of silent movies.

This truly all-star cast includes (in uncredited roles) the most renowned comedienne of the silent era, Mabel Normand, and Billy Gilbert-- he was the angry homeowner in Laurel & Hardy's Oscar winner, "The Music Box." Jess Dandy, who appeared over 4,000 times in the stageplay "The Prince of Pilsen" (where he popularized the line, "Vos You Efer In Zinzinnati?") is here, as is Glen Cavender, another of Mack Sennett's famous comic policemen.


For another Chaplin/Arbuckle pairing, try THE KNOCKOUT (also from RCF).


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.

(5.7) The Masquerader (1914) - Charles Chaplin/Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Chester Conklin/Charles Murray/Jess Dandy/Minta Durfee/Cecile Arnold/Vivian Edwards/Harry McCoy/Charley Chase (uncredited: Mabel Normand/Billy Gilbert/Glen Cavender)