Sunnyside (1919 film)

Sunnyside is a 1919 American short silent film written by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie works on a farm from 4 a.m. until late at night at the run-down Evergreen Hotel in the rural village of Sunnyside.

He blindfolds Willie and says they are playing blind man's buff - leading him out of the front door.

Charlie spies through her window and sees her with the slicker with her father in the room, seemingly accepting this new suitor.

The slicker has a unique style: a handkerchief up his sleeve and a cigarette lighter in the head of his walking cane.

At the girl's house he draws attention to the spats and his DIY attempt at a cane-top cigarette lighter.

The 1983 documentary Unknown Chaplin contains a deleted scene in which Charlie also serves as the hotel's hapless barber.

Albert Austin plays a man who has come in for a shave and gets more than he expected from the Evergreen Hotel's inept barber.

The June 16, 1919 issue of The New York Times contains this review:"Charlie Chaplin is at the Strand in his latest—"Sunnyside"—so, of course, those who go there will laugh.

He is at his best when depending upon his inimitable pantomime, and least amusing when indulging in slap-stick, in which he is not distinguished from countless other comedians.

[1]The nymph dance in the dream sequence has been described as a tribute to or parody of the ballet L'après-midi d'un faune by Vaslav Nijinsky.