His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
- Date of release
- 1914-12-07
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (54)
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
Casting
- Charlie Chaplin — Weakchin
- Mack Swain — King Lowbrow
- Gene Marsh — Sum-Babee
- Fritz Schade — Ku-Ku aka Cleo
- Cecile Arnold — Cavewoman
- Al St. John — Caveman
- May Wallace — The Queen
- Ted Edwards — Caveman (uncredited)
- Vivian Edwards — Cavewoman (uncredited)
- Charles Lakin — Caveman (uncredited)
- Grover Ligon — Caveman (uncredited)
- Frank D. Williams — Caveman (uncredited)
Interesting facts
His Prehistoric Past is a 1914 American short silent comedy film, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, featuring Chaplin in a stone-age kingdom trying to usurp the crown of King Low-Brow to win the affections of the king's favorite wife. While this film was the final short that was released while Chaplin was at Keystone Studios, the film Getting Acquainted was the last film he made there, and stopped working with almost all of Keystone's regular roster of comedians subsequently. Co-star Mack Swain would not appear in another Chaplin film until 1923 when he had a prominent role in the Chaplin silent film Pay Day.
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