Cruel, Cruel Love

A lighthearted silent-era romantic comedy built on misunderstanding and physical farce, where a wealthy gentleman's romance is threatened by a compromising embrace.

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.