The Greatest Comic Actor on Skates

The Greatest Comic Actor on Skates!

The Rink

-Directed by Charlie Chaplin and Edward Brewer

So many actors try to showcase their comic side but the one and only one actor who can have your sides aching is Charlie Chaplin.

In The Rink, he plays the role of a waiter who goes to the skating rink during his lunch break and all hell breaks loose! He has been effortlessly hilarious on Skates! I mean how can anybody be comic on skates? But he has done a brilliant job, one of his best silent B& W movies.

Comic Simplicity at its best J

The man with the bushy eyebrows, the bully, and the comic foil to Charlie’s antics is none other than Eric Campbell, who was literally a towering giant at 6 feet 5 inches!!! Charlie Chaplin saw him at a play called Broadway in New York and immediately invited him to sign on their series of comic movies in Hollywood. Unfortunately, Eric met with a car accident that killed him otherwise we would have seen many more scenes of him chasing Charlie through escalators, bending lamp posts to right angles and pulverizing poor Charlie to pieces.

The movie is available for free at Internet Archive or click onto this link

https://archive.org/details/CharlieChaplinsTheRink

ENJOY ! Fun Unlimited J