The Floorwalker (1916) on Netflix
Charlie, a customer with no money, wreaks havoc in a department store and irritates the staff who serve him. The manager and the floorwalker, meanwhile, are scheming to rob the safe.
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Plot summary
Charlie arrives at a department store with no money and annoys the staff from the moment he walks in. He takes a shave at the shaving product table, trades blows with the floor manager, and draws the attention of a store detective who keeps watch on him. The manager of the store and the floorwalker are working together on a plan to take the money from the safe, and they are loading it into a bag. Charlie, who looks exactly like the floorwalker, meets the man, and the floorwalker persuades him to stand in for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Floorwalker (1916)
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- The Floorwalker is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films: an escalator that provides the setting for a slapstick climax in which the characters chase each other down an upward escalator and stay in the same spot no matter how fast they move.
- About seven minutes into the film, Charlie Chaplin and Lloyd Bacon's characters find they look alike and mirror each other's movements, a routine believed to have inspired the mirror scene in Max Linder's Seven Years Bad Luck (1921).
- The Floorwalker was the first film Charlie Chaplin made for the Mutual Company, and the first of his comedies in which Eric Campbell played the huge, menacing villain.
- The film began Henry Bergman's long run of appearances in Chaplin's films; he usually played authority figures or upper-crust gentlemen as a comic foil to the Tramp, and he worked closely with Chaplin until his death from a heart attack in 1946.
