Name: The Cheekiest Man on Earth
Genre: Short, Comedy
Duration: 4 min
Rating: 3.6
Cast: Charles Raymond

Charles Raymond kisses strange girls in the street, steals men's drinks, their newspapers, their handkerchiefs. Done, he stalks off, and the growing crowd of offended individuals run after him.

This being a chase comedy, his walking pace keeps him well ahead of the running pursuers. This may strike the viewer looking for logic as odd, but it was a standard artifact the of the simple chase comedy in its heyday, from about 1904 through 1912: the pursuers never catch up. This short comedy, smack in the middle of its period, is quite amusing. In the staid period, such behavior was quite shocking, and the audience would be wondering what terrible act of impropriety the fellow would commit next.

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