Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film)
{{short description|1928 film by A. Edward Sutherland}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Tillie's Punctured Romance
| image = Poster - Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928) 01.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = A. Edward Sutherland
| producer = Al Christie (aka Christie Film Company)
| writer = Monte Brice
Keene Thompson
| narrator =
| starring = W. C. Fields
Louise Fazenda
Chester Conklin
Mack Swain
| music =
| cinematography = Charles P. Boyle
William Wheeler
| editing = Arthur Huffsmith
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1928|03|03}}
| runtime = 57 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
}}
Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway.[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TilliesPuncturedRomanc1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: Tillie's Punctured Romance] at silentera.com Written by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson and directed by A. Edward Sutherland, this film has nothing to do with the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film aside from sharing the same title, but Chester Conklin and Mack Swain appear in both films.
Plot
Tillie is a runaway who goes to Frisbee's Colossal Circus, with lions, a ringmaster that wants to take over the circus from the owner, a strong woman, a girl with "a voice of gold and an arm of iron". The group decides to go to the French trenches during World War I in order to entertain the troops, but they all get caught up in a draft and end up serving the German Army as privates while facing the Allies.
Cast
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- W. C. Fields as Ringmaster
- Louise Fazenda as Tillie, a Runaway
- Chester Conklin as Circus Owner
- Mack Swain as Tillie's Father
- Doris Hill as Heroine
- Grant Withers as Hero
- Tom Kennedy as Property Man
- Babe London as Strong Woman
- Billy Platt as Midget (credited as William Platt)
- Michael Raffetto as Lion tamer
- Baron von Dobeneck as Gerrman officer
- Alfred Adeline
- Tommy Albert
- Agnes Allison
- Joan Marquis
Preservation
With no prints of Tillie's Punctured Romance located in any film archives,[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9883/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Tillie's Punctured Romance] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|0019478|Tillie's Punctured Romance}}
{{A. Edward Sutherland}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language comedy films
Category:Films directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Category:Lost American comedy films
Category:Lost silent American films
Category:Silent American comedy films
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