Laughing Gas ( Busy Little Dentist / Down and Out / Laffing Gas / The Dentist / Tuning His Ivories ) is a short film by Charlie Chaplin released on July 9, 1914.
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| Genre | comedy short dumb |
| Producer | Charles Chaplin |
| Producer | Mac Sennet |
| Author script | Charlie Chaplin |
| In the main cast | Charlie Chaplin Fritz Schade Mack Swain |
| Operator | Frank Williams |
| Film company | Keystone film company |
| Duration | 16 min |
| A country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Year | 1914 |
| IMDb | ID 0004210 |
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Charlie is a dental assistant who constantly conflicts with his little colleague and patients. Once a dentist, tearing a tooth out to another patient, discovers that he fainted. Frightened, he sends Charlie to the pharmacy for medicine, but he cannot do without adventure: he knocks out a tooth for a passerby and rips off a dress from a woman who turned out to be the wife of a dentist. She calls her husband home to tell about the incident, and the patient by that time is already coming to life and leaves. Charlie, meanwhile, returns to work and begins to flirt with the patient. Soon a man appears to whom Charlie knocked out a tooth. The fight begins.
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin - Dentist Assistant
- Fritz Schade - Dentist
- Alice Howell - His Wife
- Joseph Sutherland - Little Assistant
- Mack Swain - Patient
- Slim Summerville - Patient
- Joseph Swickard - Patient
Links
- Laughing Gas on the Internet Movie Database
- Laughing Gas on the allmovie website
- Laughing Gas in the online archive