{"id":23835,"date":"2012-02-07T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=23835"},"modified":"2020-12-26T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T07:47:21","slug":"tillies-punctured-romance-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=23835","title":{"rendered":"Tillie&#8217;s Punctured Romance (1914)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The death of Mr. Banks leaves his niece Tillie the sole heir.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillies-Punctured-Romance-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillies-Punctured-Romance-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillies-Punctured-Romance-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillies-Punctured-Romance-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillies-Punctured-Romance-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA con-artist (Charlie Chaplin) convinces a farmer&#8217;s daughter (Marie Dressler) to elope with him to the city after stealing her father&#8217;s stash of money. Once there, he quickly takes up with his former flame (Mabel Normand), but shifts his allegiances once again when he hears that Tillie (Dressler) has inherited a million dollars from her deceased uncle.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charlie Chaplin Films<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Con-Artists<\/li>\n<li>Inheritance<\/li>\n<li>Marie Dressler Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nDirected by Mack Sennett, this early Charlie Chaplin\/Marie Dressler vehicle is notable as the first feature-length comedy film, and as such will be of at least passing interest to film fanatics. Unfortunately, the movie itself is little more than an extended slapstick scenario, with Chaplin&#8217;s &#8220;Little Punk&#8221; doing whatever it takes to milk poor Dressler of her familial funds, overweight Dressler mugging like crazy for the camera, and Mabel Normand having fun playing Chaplin&#8217;s no-good sidekick (watch for an interesting scene in which she and Chaplin watch a silent film about cons like themselves). Given that Peary doesn&#8217;t list short films in his book, it&#8217;s a bonus as well to see the Keystone Kops showing up near the end of the story; regardless of how much one actually enjoys their antics, film fanatics should at least be familiar with their schtick. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An early glimpse at several silent screen icons<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Dressler2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Dressler2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Dressler2.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Dressler2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Dressler2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Normand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Normand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Normand.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Normand-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tillie-Chaplin-Normand-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, but simply for its historical importance as the first feature-length comedy. Available for free viewing at www.archive.org. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1784#historical\">Historically Relevant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0004707\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematicthreads.com\/review.php?id=1384&#038;ltr=T\">Cinematic Threads Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The death of Mr. Banks leaves his niece Tillie the sole heir.&#8221; Synopsis: A con-artist (Charlie Chaplin) convinces a farmer&#8217;s daughter (Marie Dressler) to elope with him to the city after stealing her father&#8217;s stash of money. Once there, he quickly takes up with his former flame (Mabel Normand), but shifts his allegiances once again when he hears that Tillie (Dressler) has inherited a million dollars from her deceased uncle. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Charlie Chaplin Films Comedy Con-Artists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=23835\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59627,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions\/59627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}