Dough and Dynamite

Features Charlie Chaplin as a waiter in a French restaurant and bakery. Shows how he has a terrible time breaking dishes and getting dough all over the floor., Features the first of Chaplin's two-reelers which takes place in a bakery where Chaplin creates havoc both in the cookhouse and adjoining restaurant, and finally becomes involved with strikers who air their grievances by hiding dynamite in the bread, Features the first of Chaplin's two-reelers which takes place in a bakery where Chaplin creates havoc both in the cookhouse and adjoining restaurant, and finally becomes involved with strikers who air their grievances by hiding dynamite in the bread

Charlie is especially inept and his comic carelessness enrages the customers. Charlie is put to work in the bakery where his lack of skills upsets his boss and co-worker Chester Conklin. Meanwhile, the vengeful strikers have arranged to smuggle a loaf of bread concealing a stick of dynamite into the bakery. During a free-for-all involving Charlie, Chester, and their boss, the dynamite dramatically explodes.

Credits

Cast
Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fritz Schade

Copyright

Complete catalog record
A Charlie Chaplin comedy concerning labor trouble in a bakehouse. Slapstick comedy at its best. Cast includes Chester Conklin, Charley Chase, Edgar Kennedy, Slim Summerville.

More in Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theater Series

  1. Dough and Dynamite 1914
  2. A night in the show. 1915
  3. SHANGHAIED 1915
  4. One A M 1916
  5. Police. 1916
  6. The Count 1916
  7. The Fireman 1916
  8. The pawnshop. 1916
  9. The Vagabond 1916
  10. Easy street. 1917
  11. The Adventurer 1917
  12. A woman 1944
  13. The Rink 1965
  14. The Cure 1995

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits
  2. YouTube channel: Public Domain Stuff · video ↗ — title, video
  3. Wikidata · Q1251918 ↗ — country, copyright
  4. 16mm Filmography editors — catalog record