Review of Making a Living

In Making a Living, Charlie Chaplin's film debut, he is not yet dressed as The Little Tramp. Instead, he sports a monocle, top hat, dapper suit, and a more drooping mustache. And he's basically more of a swindler than a gentleman with his penchant for stealing another person's credit (in this one, he sees someone take a picture of a car accident and takes the camera to pass the picture as his own in the newspaper building). Still, the fight scenes are pretty hilarious especially when Chaplin uses his umbrella to hold back his tormentor! And the last scene when they end up on a train car should tell you how actors seemed more willing to perform their own stunts then than now. So, on that note this is still worth a look for any fans of Chaplin and silent comedy history.