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About Twenty Minutes of Love

Charlie is amidst a number of loving couples in the park. He parodies one couple by embracing a tree. A girl asks her beau for a love token. The beau steals a pocket watch from a sleeping man, Charlie gets it away from him and gives it to the girl. He later gets it back and tries to sell it to his original owner who calls a policeman. Many park visitors wind up getting tossed into the lake.

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• Baxter Martin on 25 March at 23:04

  Twenty Minutes of Love (1914, Chaplin)
  
  "Twenty Minutes of Love" marks Chaplin's directorial debut and eleventh film overall. This is another short that takes place in the park, which of course has a lake that you can guess someone or everyone is going to end up in it by film's end. The film starts with Charlie admiring a smooching couple on a park bench and then he moves in to ruin their moment by maybe trying to get a little of his own with the lady. Although this approach improably does work in a few of the other shorts, it doesn't this time around and soon Charlie finds another girl. The second girl already has a wooer who goes off to pickpocket a watch for the apple of his eye. Charlie ends up pickpocketing the watch from the pickpocket and giving it to the girl. Mayhem ensues with lots of kicks, slaps and the aforementioned bodies in the lake.
  
  Twenty Minutes of Love is an average spectacle of slapstick and could be easily glossed over in favor of other shorts from the keystone year.

  
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