Dough and Dynamite is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
In Mack Sennett's 1954 autobiography, King of Comedy, he recalled he was absent from Keystone Studios for most of the filming of Dough and Dynamite.
Before Sennett left, he put Chaplin and Conklin jointly in charge of creating a new comedy with basically no guidelines.
The two comedians began creating a film in which each man was a roominghouse boarder competing against one another in trying to woo the landlady, but they abandoned the idea after a short time.
His odd little tricks of manner and his refusal to do the most simple things in an ordinary way are essential features of his method, which thus far has defied successful imitation.