"The Count" is another Charlie Chaplin 20-minute short film. It was made in 1916, almost 100 years ago or maybe over 100 years already when you read this review. It was silent and black-and-white obviously and is considered one of the films Chaplin made during his strongest years before his full feature film career. Sadly, I cannot agree in this very particular case. I found this one of his more forgettable films. Purviance and Campbell are welcome additions as always, but I am not too big on Chaplin films that are basically nothing but a collection of slapstick and other comedic elements. It would have been nice to actually see a better storyline in this one here. Not recommended and I suggest you check out some of his superior short films. There are enough that fit this description.

Monday Septembeer 17, 7:00pm, The Paramount TheaterAn enormous tailor (Eric Campbell) impersonates Count Broko in order to attend the party of beautiful heiress, Miss Moneybags (Edna Purviance). He discharges his assistant (Charles Chaplin) for incompetence, then discovers him at the party. The tailor pleads with his former employee to pose as his secretary, but Charlie rushes instead to announce he is the Count, and a competition for Miss Moneybag's attention ensues. When the real Count (Leo White) arrives, the tailor is arrested, while Charlie waddles down the sidewalk and into the distance. In The Count, Chaplin revisits the theme of the role playing impostor intruding on the upper classes as he satirizes established social conventions. He invents bizarre dining etiquette as he shares a meal while seated between the tailor and the composed but concerned heiress, then vies with another guest (Albert Austin) for her attention on the impossibly slippery floor, in an outrageous dancing finale.

Charlie and Eric Campbell are in top form is this very amusing short. Charlie plays a tailor's assistant and Campbell is his boss. They wind up by coincidence (!) at the same rich lady's party, where both compete for the daughter Miss Moneybags, played by Edna Purviance.The plot is, of course, completely ridiculous, and the whole thing is totally silly and contrived--which is just how it should be. The highlight is a hilarious dance sequence, with Charlie at his acrobatic best. There is a lot of cake-throwing and bottom-kicking. The latter is such a standard device in Chaplin movies that I wonder if there might have been some kind of underlying S&M thing going on here.Not one of his best, but standard Charlie is Grade A stuff. Still very very funny.

Charlie Chaplin goes to a party and he pretends to be a certain count. He doesn't act like a count but they all believe he is one until the real count shows up.This is another fine Charlie Chaplin movie where he does some nice satire on higher society. It starts a little slow but once they are on that party it gets very funny.