This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Watch the official Cruel, Cruel Love 1914 trailer in HD below.
Charlie Chaplin as Mr. Dovey
Edgar Kennedy as Butler
Minta Durfee as The Lady
Eva Nelson as Maid
Glen Cavender as Bearded Doctor (uncredited)
William Hauber as Gardener (uncredited)
Bert Hunn as Tall Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Harry Russell as Bald Doctor (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert as Short Ambulance Attendant
United Kingdom 30 June 1914
United States 26 March 1914
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31 July 1914
Patsy, the cook of the "Flying U" ranch, is passionately fond of canned corn. Every time he goes to town to buy supplies for the camp, cases of canned corn head the list.
01 May 1914
Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him.
01 January 1914
Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life.
24 January 1914
To err is human, but in the end, goodness of heart will prevail and the one who has committed an offense against man-made laws may come out of the mire and develop into a law abiding and god-fearing citizen.
10 May 1914
Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes.
21 January 1914
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent.
22 October 1914
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie.
01 January 1914
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel.
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Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is.
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