Pay Day (1922 film)

Pay Day
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Charles Chaplin
Written by	Charles Chaplin
Starring	Charles Chaplin; Edna Purviance; Mack Swain; Syd Chaplin
Production; company	Charles Chaplin Productions
Distributed by	Associated First National; Fox Video (1998) (USA) (VHS); Image Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD); Koch Vision (2000) (USA) (DVD); MK2 Diffusion (2001) (World-wide) (all media); Warner Home Video (2004) (USA); Reel Media International (2004 & 2007) (USA) (All Media)
Release date	April 2, 1922; ; ; ; ;
Running time	28 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Pay Day (1922) is an American short film made by First National Pictures. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in the film. It is Chaplin's final two-reel short film.

Plot[edit]

Chaplin plays a laborer on a house construction site. When he gets paid, his wife wants all the money, but he manages to keep enough of it to go out drinking. He returns home just in time to pretend he has just woken up to go to work.

Cast[edit]

Charlie Chaplin as Laborer
Phyllis Allen as Laborer's Wife
Mack Swain as Foreman
Edna Purviance as Foreman's Daughter
Syd Chaplin as Charlie's Friend / Lunch Cart Owner
Albert Austin as Workman
John Rand as Workman Who Throws The Bricks
Loyal Underwood as Bearded Workman
Henry Bergman as Fat Drinking Companion
Al Ernest Garcia as Tall Drinking Companion / Policeman

External links[edit]

Pay Day on YouTube
Pay Day on IMDb

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v t e Films directed by Charlie Chaplin
Keystone Studios	Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) Caught in the Rain (1914) A Busy Day (1914) Her Friend the Bandit (1914) Mabel's Married Life (1914) Laughing Gas (1914) The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914) Recreation (1914) The Masquerader (1914) His New Profession (1914) The Rounders (1914) The Property Man (1914) The New Janitor (1914) Those Love Pangs (1914) Dough and Dynamite (1914) Gentlemen of Nerve (1914) His Musical Career (1914) His Trysting Place (1914) Getting Acquainted (1914) His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Essanay Studios	His New Job (1915) A Night Out (1915) The Champion (1915) In the Park (1915) A Jitney Elopement (1915) The Tramp (1915) By the Sea (1915) Work (1915) A Woman (1915) The Bank (1915) Shanghaied (1915) A Night in the Show (1915) A Burlesque on Carmen (1915) Police (1916) Triple Trouble (1918)
Mutual Film Corp	The Floorwalker (1916) The Fireman (1916) The Vagabond (1916) One A.M. (1916) The Count (1916) The Pawnshop (1916) Behind the Screen (1916) The Rink (1916) Easy Street (1917) The Cure (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Adventurer (1917)
First National	A Dog's Life (1918) The Bond (1918) Shoulder Arms (1918) Sunnyside (1919) A Day's Pleasure (1919) The Professor (1919) The Kid (1921) The Idle Class (1921) Pay Day (1922) The Pilgrim (1923)
United Artists	A Woman of Paris (1923) The Gold Rush (1925) The Circus (1928) City Lights (1931) Modern Times (1936) The Great Dictator (1940) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Limelight (1952)
Later productions	A King in New York (1957) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
See also	The Chaplin Revue (1959) The Freak (1966–75)

Pay Day (1922 film)

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