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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. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was presumed a lost film for 50 years until a rather good complete nitrate copy was discovered in South America. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was then copied and its original two reel format is available for sale… or right here on richardland.com

Cruel Cruel Love (1914)
Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Eva Nelson.
Directed by George Nichols, Mack Sennett

The tramp (Chaplin), works small jobs like street sweeping, and enters a boxing contest, all to raise money for an operation to restore the sight of a blind flower girl he’s fallen in love with and who mistakenly thinks he is wealthy.