[MOVIE]
T.it.: “Gas esilarante” o “Charlot dentista”; Scen.: Charles Chaplin; F.: Frank D. Williams; Int.: Charles Chaplin (assistente del dentista), Fritz Shade (dentista), Alice Howell (moglie del dentista), Joseph Sutherland (assistente), George Slim Summerville (paziente), Joseph Swickard (altro paziente), Mack Swain (terzo paziente); Prod.: Keystone Film Company; 35mm. L.: 311 m. D.: 15’ a 18 f/s. Imbibito.
Laughing Gas is one of Chaplin’s most anarchic early films: a whole-sale mockery of order, dignity, and respectability. It is easy and misleading to see the film’s violence as much of a muchness. Actually we are shown a variety of violent acts, and, more importantly, a variety of motives for them that reveal Charlie’s attitudes to other characters.
Harry M. Geduld, Chapliniana. Volume I: The Keystone Films, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1987
Restoration credits
Print restored in 2003 by the Cineteca di Bologna, BFI, and Lobster Film, at L’ Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, using a tinted positive nitrate print lacking intertitles, held by the Finnish Film Archive. English intertitles have been reconstructed
