The Fatal Mallet
1914 American film
- June 1, 1914 (1914-06-01)
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The Fatal Mallet is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. The film was written and directed by Mack Sennett, who also portrays one of Chaplin's rivals for Normand's attention. (Sennett and Normand were off-screen lovers during this period.)
The Fatal Mallet is one of more than a dozen early films that writer/director/comedian Mabel Normand made with Charles Chaplin; Normand, who had written and directed films before Chaplin, mentored the young comedian.
Synopsis
Three men will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie (in famous tramp guise) and one other suitor (unusually played by Mack Sennett himself) teams up against the third, and play dirty, throwing bricks and using a mallet. However, Charlie double-crosses his partner, thus losing his trust and the girl in the end.
Reviews
A reviewer for Moving Picture World said of The Fatal Mallet, "This one-reeler proves that hitting people over the head with bricks and mallets can sometimes be made amusing."
A reviewer for Bioscope positively wrote, "Though rivals in love for the beautiful Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin and Mack Sennett combine to rid themselves of a third poacher on their preserves, and the employment of a deadly mallet gives these indescribable comedians the opportunity for another genuinely funny farce."
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin - Suitor
- Mabel Normand - Mabel
- Mack Sennett - Rival suitor
- Mack Swain - Another rival
See also
- List of American films of 1914
- Charlie Chaplin filmography
External links
- The Fatal Mallet at IMDb
- The Fatal Mallet is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Fatal Mallet on YouTube
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Films directed by Mack Sennett
- The Country Lovers (1911)
- At Coney Island (1912)
- The Joke on the Joker (1912)
- The Engagement Ring (1912)
- The Eternal Mother (1912)
- Did Mother Get Her Wish? (1912)
- Pants and Pansies (1912)
- The Mender of Nets (1912)
- The Fatal Chocolate (1912)
- A Spanish Dilemma (1912)
- Hot Stuff (1912)
- A Voice From The Deep (1912)
- Oh, Those Eyes (1912)
- Help! Help! (1912)
- The Brave Hunter (1912)
- The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
- The Furs (1912)
- When Kings Were The Law (1912)
- Helen's Marriage (1912)
- Tomboy Bessie (1912)
- Katchem Kate (1912)
- Neighbors (1912)
- A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
- The New Baby (1912)
- The Tourist (1912)
- What The Doctor Ordered (1912)
- An Interrupted Elopement (1912)
- The Tragedy of a Dress Suit (1912)
- He Must Have A Wife (1912)
- Cohen Collects A Debt (1912)
- The Water Nymph (1912)
- The New Neighbor (1912)
- Riley and Schultz (1912)
- The Beating He Needed (1912)
- Pedro's Dilemma (1912)
- Ambitious Butler (1912)
- The Flirting Husband (1912)
- At Coney Island (1912)
- At It Again (1912)
- Mabel's Lovers (1912)
- The Deacon's Troubles (1912)
- A Temperamental Husband (1912)
- Mr. Fix-It (1912)
- The Rivals (1912)
- A Desperate Lover (1912)
- Bronw's Seance (1912)
- A Family Mixup (1912)
- A Midnight Elopement (1912)
- Mabel's Adventures (1912)
- The Drummer's Vacation (1912)
- The Duel (1912)
- Mabel's Stratagem (1912)
- King's Court (1912)
- Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912)
- Keystone Cops (1912)
- A Voice from the Deep (1912)
- Won by a Fish (1912)
- A Bandit (1913)
- Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913)
- Cohen Saves the Flag (1913)
- The Foreman of the Jury (1913)
- The Gypsy Queen (1913)
- Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)
- Murphy's I.O.U. (1913)
- A Noise from the Deep (1913)
- Peeping Pete (1913)
- The Riot (1913)
- Some Nerve (1913)
- The Telltale Light (1913)
- That Ragtime Band (1913)
- When Dreams Come True (1913)
- Mabel's New Hero (1913)
- The Fatal Mallet (1914)
- Hello, Mabel (1914)
- Tango Tangles (1914)
- Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
- Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
- Love, Speed and Thrills (1915)
- My Valet (1915)
- The Other Man (1916)
- Oh, Mabel Behave (1922)
- The Good-Bye Kiss (1928)
- Girl Crazy (1929)
- Match Play (1930)
- Midnight Daddies (1930)
- I Surrender Dear (1931)
- One More Chance (1931)
- Hypnotized (1932)
- The Timid Young Man (1935)
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