Her Friend the Bandit

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Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie.^[1] It is considered lost.

Synopsis

Charlie plays an elegant bandit with whom Mabel has a flirtation. Mabel hosts a party. Charlie attends as a French count (Count de Beans). Charlie's uncouth behavior shocks the other party guests. The Keystone Cops eventually are summoned and remove Charlie from the party.^[2]

Chaplin's lost films

Her Friend the Bandit and A Woman of the Sea are Chaplin's lost films, as no copy is known to exist. As more and more supposedly 'lost' silent films emerge, there is some hope that a copy of Her Friend the Bandit will surface in a private collection somewhere. As late as 1965, five of Chaplin's early comedies for Keystone were considered forever lost. Copies of four of them have surfaced in the intervening decades.^{[citation needed]} Her Friend the Bandit is still considered Chaplin’s only 'lost' Keystone film.^[3]

Reviews

From the Lexington Herald in Lexington, Kentucky (June 7, 1914): "'Her Friend, the Bandit', Keystone. One of the funniest and most hilarious comedies in a decade, with a conglomeration of mirth-provoking scenes."

From The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon (June 14, 1914): "The Keystone players will offer 'Her Friend, the Bandit', one of those rough and ready farces that make everybody laugh."

Cast

• Charlie Chaplin as Bandit
• Mabel Normand as Mabel
• Charles Murray as Count de Beans

See also

• List of American films of 1914
• List of lost films
• The Professor - a 1919 film by Chaplin that was never released.
• A Woman of the Sea - a 1926 film by Chaplin that was never released, and destroyed by Chaplin himself in the 1930s as a tax writeoff.

References

External links

• Her Friend the Bandit at IMDb