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The Rounders (1914)

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In Mack Sennett's THE ROUNDERS, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin are two sophisticate inebriates who go off on a terrorizing toot and end up on a lake in a leaky rowboat. The drunks sleep blissfully in its bottom as the boat slowly fills with water and sinks.

This short was written and directed by Chaplin and includes the usual supporting cast of Keystone players: Fatty's wife (Minta Durfee) and nephew (Al St. John), Billy Gilbert (Laurel & Hardy's "THE MUSIC BOX"), Eddie Cline (Buster Keaton's collaborator and director of THE BANK DICK, with W.C. Fields), slow-burn artist Edgar Kennedy ("DUCK SOUP]" with the Marx Bros.) and future comic star Charley Chase (THE CHARLEY CHASE COLLECTION, Vol. 1).

Also recommended:
Fatty Arbuckle and the panoply of Keystone actors appear in the Chaplin short, THE MASQUERADER (1914). Here, Charlie is a dismissed performer who auditions a second time in drag.

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(6.3) The Rounders (1914) - Charles Chaplin/Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Phyllis Allen/Minta Durfee/Al St. John/Wallace MacDonald/Charley Chase (uncredited: Cecile Arnold/Dixie Chene/Edward F. Cline/Ted Edwards/Billy Gilbert/William Hauber/Edgar Kennedy)