The Professor (1919)

Name: The Professor
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1919-01-01

Running Time

January 1, 1919
Release Date

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Plot.

Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.

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This Movie Is About.

silent film ·

short

Cast & Crew.

Charlie Chaplin

Professor Bosco / Director

Albert Austin

Man in flophouse

Henry Bergman

Bearded man in flophouse

Loyal Underwood

Flophouse Proprietor (uncredited)

Tom Wilson

Man in Flophouse (uncredited)

Tom Wood

Fat Man in Flophouse (uncredited)

Charles D. Hall

Producer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1919

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Genres
Comedy

Wiki.

The Professor is a 1919 American silent comedy film made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only one sequence: a single reel. Chaplin appears not as his usual Tramp character but as "Professor Bosco", a slovenly showman who brings his flea circus with him when staying at a flophouse. The fleas get loose during the night and create havoc.

The surviving film is included in Unknown Chaplin and on the Criterion Collection Limelight Blu-ray and release.