The King of the Kitchen
A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Harry Gribbon
The Chef
Rosa Gore
Owner of the house (as Rose Gore)
Eva Novak
Her niece
May Emory
A crooked lady (as Mae Emory)
Billy Armstrong
A crooked gentleman
Oliver Hardy
A German customer
Merta Sterling
A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.