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  Sydney Chaplin (center) and Phyllis Allen (right).
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A Lover’s Lost Control
Also known as Looking Them Over in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Charles Avery [?] and Sydney Chaplin?

Cast: Sydney Chaplin [Gussle], Phyllis Allen [his wife], Josef Swickard [a cigar-smoking customer in the shoe department], [?] Frank Alexander? [a customer in the shoe department], [?] Joy Lewis? [his daughter], [?] Jay Belasco? [a shoe clerk], [?] Wesley Ruggles? [a shoe clerk], [?] Charles Lakin? [the dishware clerk], [?] Grover Ligon? [the man calling the police], [?] Wayland Trask? [the janitor], [?] Billie Bennett? [a store customer], [?] Minnie Chaplin? [a store customer]

The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / Released 2 August 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Gussle’s Disaster. [?] Completed or shipped? on 17 July 1915. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis as Looking Them Over by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Shoe stores: Shoe salesmen

Listing updated: 23 July 2024.

References: Lahue-Kops pp. 90g, 154; Lahue-Mack p. 300; Spehr-American p. 101 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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