Chaplin again plays a woman (at least in the second half) of this film that he edited, wrote, directed, and starred in. The film begins sort of as another one of Chaplin's park comedies with Chaplin coming upon a man playing hide and seek in the park. Chaplin leads him to water so to speak, but not without teasing the audience along the way. He dispatches a cop in a unique fashion shortly after. He gets invited to the ladies' home where he runs into the husband/father that he lead to water earlier. Chaplin has to think fast and heads upstairs to escape and then runs into a dummy with a dress. He gets a bright idea and dons the dress but needs to be reminded by the young lady to lose his mustache and wear her shoes to be passable. He heads downstairs where the husband/father and a friend both fall for Chaplin in drag. This must have been uproarious back in its day while today it's mildly amusing. It's a quickly paced film that loses a little steam until the drag sequences. Of course Charlie is eventually found out, but not before he makes fools out of both gentlemen in front of the wife/mother and daughter. **1/2 of 4 stars.
Review of A Woman
