About Dough and Dynamite

Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.

Movie Details

Language: Silent

Year of production: 1914

Length: 28'14

Country: United States

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  • Directors:
    Charlie Chaplin
  • Producers:
    Mark Sennett
  • Actors:
    Charlie Chaplin ... Pierre, a Waiter
    Chester Conklin ... Jacques, Waiter
    Fritz Schade ... Monsieur La Vie, Bakery Owner
    Norma Nichols ... Mme. La Vie, the Baker's Wife
    Cecile Arnold ... Waitress
    Vivian Edwards ... Customer
    Phyllis Allen ... Customer
    John Francis Dillon ... Customer
    Edgar Kennedy ... Striking Baker
    Slim Summerville ... Striking Baker
    Charley Chase ... Customer
    Wallace MacDonald ... Customer

Comments

  • Baxter Martin on 24 March at 01:19

    Dough & Dynamite, 1914, Chaplin

    Dough and Dynamite just sounds funny, doesn't it? This was the 29th film out of 35 Chaplin would star in for Keystone in 1914. He directs from a Mack Sennett script. Although I think this movie is just as primitive as all of the others in these early movie factory days for Chaplin, this one holds many funny moments. Such as body weight size flour bags dropping on peoples' heads from at least 12 feet up; sneaking dynamite into a loaf of bread that will then be 'cooked;' repeatedly touching a cast iron oven with a bare hand. A frequent character in the union plays into this plot. Dough and Dynamite is a struggle at close to half an hour but there are some genuine laughs in it that make it worth the once through.