How One of the First Chaplin Films Came to Be the Last to Be Widely Seen
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy A Thief Catcher (1914). This minor picture features the Keystone Kops, and Ford Sterling (who also directed). Sterling plays a character named “Suspicious John” who calls the Kops when he spies some “yeggs” lurking about his house. The film might have remained far more obscure than it […]