A Dog's Life

(1918)

Comedy / Silent 

35 minutes

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Cast:

Charles Chaplin as Tramp

Edna Purviance as Bar singer

Mut as Scraps, a thoroughbred mongrel

Syd Chaplin as Lunchwagon owner

Henry Bergman as Fat unemployed man/Dance-hall lady

Charles Reisner as Employment agency clerk

Albert Austin as Employment agency clerk

Tom Wilson as Policeman

M. J. McCarthy as Unemployed man

Mel Brown as Unemployed man

Charles Force as Unemployed man

Bert Appling as Unemployed man

Thomas Riley as Unemployed man

Slim Cole as Unemployed man

Ted Edwards as Unemployed man

Louis Fitzroy as Unemployed man

Zouzou man as Super man

A Dog’s Life is a silent comedy released by First National Pictures, Inc. in 1918.  The movie was written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

The Tramp , who lives in a vacant lot and can’t find work at the unemployment office, rescues a dog being attacked by other dogs.   The Tramp and Scraps, the dog, steal sausages from a lunch wagon and then go to visit a dance hall where they meet a lovely singer.  Since the Tramp can’t pay for a dance he is thrown out and returns to his vacant lot where Scraps finds a wallet buried by some crooks.  The wallet is juggled back and forth between the Tramp and the crooks, but finally ends  up in the right hands,