| Laughing Gas | |
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| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Produced by | Mack Sennett |
| Starring | Charles Chaplin |
| Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
| Editing by | Charles Chaplin |
| Release date(s) | 9 July 1914 |
| Running time | 16 minutes |
| Country |  United States
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| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
| IMDb profile | |
Laughing Gas is a 1914 film staring Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as "Busy Little Dentist", "Down and Out", "Laffing Gas", "The Dentist", and "Tuning His Ivories".
Plot
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club. Charlie is then sent to the drug store by the dentist, gets in a fight with a man who receives a brick in the face, thus becoming another dental patient. He also pulls the skirt off of the dentist's wife while she is outside walking. At one point Charlie pulls a the wrong tooth from an unfortunate patient, using over sized pliers.
Cast
- Charles Chaplin - Dentist's Assistant
- Fritz Schade - Dr. Pain, the Dentist
- Alice Howell - Dentist's Wife
- Joseph Sutherland - Short Assistant
- Slim Summerville - Patient
- Josef Swickard - Patient
- Mack Swain - Patient
- Gene Marsh - Patient (uncredited)
External links
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 American films of the 1910s |
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