Wrong place, wrong mustache, absolute chaos — 1919's finest mistaken identity fever dream.
Acting
Billy West's Chaplin cosplay is uncanny valley before that was a thing.
Practical Effects
Real prison sets, real chaos, zero safety regulations. Cinema!
Director
Charley Chase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Red Scare of 1919-20, this accidentally documents America's terror of its own working class.
Billy West was so famous for impersonating Chaplin that the real Chaplin allegedly found it 'flattering but exhausting.'
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