Making a Living

Chaplin's Keystone debut sees him as an impoverished and inebriate gentleman who begs the better-heeled Lehrman for a loan. The refusal offends, and as they compete for a job as a newspaper reporter they become rivals. Charlie and Lehrman battle it out to be first to the editor with a scoop, and they are still battling it out at the end when they are carried off on the front of a streetcar. (Verleiher-Text)