Dog’s Life, A

About the movie

Along with his regular leading lady Edna Purviance - playing a much-abused singer and hostess working in the seedy Green Lantern bar - Chaplin is joined for the first time by his brother Sydney, who had shared his early struggles and helped him make his way on the variety theatres on the variety theatre circuit. An excellent comedian in his own right, Sydney plays the proprietor of the coffee stall which is victim to the pilfering of Charlie and Scraps. An odd feature of A Dog’s Life is that Chaplin has abandoned his usual cane - presumably because he needed his hand free to hold the dog’s leash.

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