The mischievous young son of the landlord, however, has taken a series of compromising photographs and displays them to everyone in a magic lantern show.

Two scandals are revealed: One photo shows Charlie kissing the proprietor's wife.

Four years later Griffith would play the young title character in the first movie adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes.

Motion Picture News said of The Star Boarder, "[It is] a very funny comedy.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, when the film was submitted for review for its 1918 reissue as The Landlady's Pet, cuts of Chaplin thumbing his nose and the scene of Chaplin inflating his trousers and looking into them.