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6.4An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin as Impecunious Customer
- Eric Campbell as Store Manager
- Edna Purviance as Store Manager's Secretary
- Lloyd Bacon as Assistant Manager
- Charlotte Mineau as Store Detective
- Albert Austin as Shop Assistant
Themes
- department store
- slapstick comedy
- silent film
- doppelgänger
- short film
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Charlie Chaplin , Edward Brewer (technical director)
- Written by
- Charlie Chaplin (scenario), Vincent Bryan (scenario), Maverick Terrell (scenario)
- Produced by
- Henry P. Caulfield
- Starring
- Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell , Edna Purviance
- Cinematography
- William C. Foster , Roland Totheroh
- Edited by
- Charlie Chaplin
- Distributed by
- Mutual Film Corporation
- Release date
- May 15, 1916 ( 1916-05-15 )
- Running time
- 2 reels (24 minutes in restored, speed-corrected version)
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent (English intertitles )
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 24
- FilmAffinity ID
- 497797
- Image
- Jefedetienda.jpg
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- publication date
- 1916-01-01
- title
- The Floorwalker
- Commons category
- The Floorwalker
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The Floorwalker The Floorwalker is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment.
The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series of slapstick that climaxes with a frantic chase down an upward escalator and finding they are remaining in the same position on the steps no matter how fast they move. Edna Purviance plays a minor role as a secretary to the store manager.