[MOVIE]
Scen.: Charles Chaplin; Int.: Charles Chaplin (il ladro), Minta Durfee (la donna), Edgar Kennedy (l’amante), Gordon Griffith (il ragazzo), Chester Conklin (altro ladro), Joseph Swickard (la vittima), Hank Mann (l’addormentato); Prod.: Keystone Film Company; 35mm. L.: 308 m. D.: 15’ a 18 f/s. Bn.
In Chaplin’s park films the location functions as an “island” (apart from the normal restraints of society) in which each character gives free rein to his impulses – sexual, violent, larcenous, etc. – usually in conflict with the impulses of one or more of the other characters. Twenty Minutes of Love is typical of this group of films.
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 nitrate negative duplicate. English intertitles have been reconstructed
