The original meet-the-parents nightmare, but make it 1912 and absolutely unhinged.
A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.
Direction
Alice Guy-Blaché invented this, literally.
Acting
Darwin Karr commits to the bit hard.
Director
Alice Guy-Blaché
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alice Guy-Blaché was cinema's first female director and ran her own studio—this was standard output for her prolific 400+ film career.
The 'double' trope here predates Chaplin's identical twins gags by years; Guy-Blaché was prototyping screwball comedy before it had a name.
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