The Idle Class

(1921)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 117 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1921

Runtime: 32 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Чарли Чаплин

Cast: Чарли Чаплин, Эдна Первиэнс, Генри Бергман, Al Ernest Garcia, Лита Грей, Lillian McMurray, Джон Рэнд, Rex Storey, Мак Суэйн, Armand Triller

Plot

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

The conflict here is between Charlie the wealthy and alcoholic husband and Charlie the Tramp: the idle rich and the idle poor. In the opening scene wealthy Edna descends from a Pullman car while the Tramp crawls out from under another one. At a fancy masquerade ball Edna's husband appears as a knight whose visor is stuck closed. The Tramp shows up, running from the law, and is mistaken for the husband. Edna finds the new "husband" more to her liking than the real one. When true identities are revealed, a fight breaks out and the Tramp is ejected.