- Actors: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Eric Campbell
- Directors: Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett
- Writers: Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, A. Baldwin Sloane, Craig Hutchinson, Edgar Smith
- Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Subtitles: Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Kamoom Entertainment
- Release Date: Sep 25 2003
- Run Time: 133 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00003ES31
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#73,700 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #15 in DVD > Classics > Classic Stars > Charlie Chaplin
- #15 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Stars > Charlie Chaplin
- #72 in DVD > Classics > Silent Films > Comedy
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Product Description
Amazon.ca Canadian Essential
Several leading figures of early movies (among them actress Mary Pickford and director Allan Dwan) were transplanted Canadians, and this landmark film brought two of them together. When Quebec's Mack Sennett, the mastermind behind Keystone slapstick comedy, wanted to make the first feature-length comedy, he turned to an old vaudeville friend and fellow Canadian, Marie Dressler, when his backers told him his starring couple, Mabel Normand and a young comic named Charlie Chaplin, were not enough of a box-office draw. The result, Tillie's Punctured Romance, was a smash hit and remains rousingly funny to this day.
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Most helpful customer reviews
Fantastic Restoration!
May 6 2003
Format:DVD
Quality prints of Chaplin's Keystones are so hard to find! This is one. Image Entertainment has done it again. The quality is crisp and clear. Highly recommend!
This review is for the Tillie's/Mabel DVD, NOT the Chaplin Marathon!
Image Entertainment Release
Feb 17 2003
Format:DVD
Please ignore the reviews for this video that refer to it as a Laser Light release. THIS IS NOT A LASERLIGHT RELEASE. This DVD is remastered by Image Entertainment with a new score. The image quality is pretty good considering this is a film from 1914! Image Entertainment is the best out there when it comes to releasing silent films on DVD. Image Entertainment remasters all their silent films from the best available 35mm nitrate source and they create new scores for the films. Don't let the other reviews turn you off from experiencing this early silent film gem.
Not as bad as expected
Dec 26 2002
Format:DVD
First of all, this review is for the Laserlight dvd "Charlie Chaplin Marathon", which has different content from other dvds that this review may appear on.
What we have is is three readily available Chaplin short films, and the feature "Tillie's Punctured Romance".
The three short films, "The Immigrant", "The Rink", and "The Vagabond", are three of Chaplin's best from the Mutual Films period, 1916-1917. In this edition, the films are presented in copies from the Blackhawk collection, with the 1930's era Van Buren soundtracks added on. The picture quality is surprisingly good for a budget dvd, the soundtracks are as horrible as they have always been, and the films are not as restored as the copies on the Image "Chaplin Mutual Films" collection. This makes the dvd not a bad starting place for the Chaplin novice.
However, the copy of "Tillie's Punctured Romance" is a horror, a very bad print, missing many shots and scenes, with a narrator droning endlessly on to try and make sense of this choppy film. It is an abomination, and it saddens me to think that people might be buying this instead of the Image dvd of the film. The Image dvd is fully restored, and looks and sounds a good as possible.
The verdict - this disc may pass for someone who isn't that interested in Chaplin, but it is not for the discerning fan. There are many discs to recommend instead of it.
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Most recent customer reviews
First feature comedy
The reviews on this page seem to be referring to two or three different editions of "Tillie's Punctured Romance. Read more
Published on May 9 2002 by Daniel H. Hawkins
No talking during the movie - PLEASE!
This is a LaserLight product, and they don't care. They don't care about silent movies, or they wouldn't have put out three short comedies that run too fast. Read more
Published on Oct 25 2001 by Daryl Stenhouse
Fine, not WOW-ing
A pretty decent collection and includes the first full-length feature, hence historically important. However, the sound quality is one of the worst possible on a DVD.. Read more
Published on July 26 2001 by Sreeram Ramakrishnan
A decent DVD at a decent Price
[...] It is a pretty decent collection. The sound quality leaves something to be desired and video quality is as to be expected. Nothing less, nothing more. Overall, not too bad. Read more
Published on Jun 20 2001 by Slava G.
A 1914 CURIO.
Historically important as the very first feature length comedy, it's also a pleasingly funny little show. Read more
Published on May 19 2000 by "scotsladdie"
Not bad
Sure,the sound is very,very annoying,but the picture quality is suprisingly good.The picture quality on the three short films is good,but the picture on Tillie's Puntured Romance... Read more
Published on May 13 2000 by John
terrible
Avoid at all cost,This is one of the worst collections I have ever seen.It has lame music and annoying sound effects. Read more
Published on April 2 2000 by James Horvath
Must have
This is one the best I have seen yet.Great organ music makes it a pleasure to watch,along with original intertitles.I highly recommended this DVD for your collection.
Published on Jan 27 2000 by James Horvath
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