Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, John Rand, Loyal Underwood, Henry Bergman, Allan Garcia, Pete Griffin, Joe Griffin, Harry Tenbrook, Ethel Childers, Edith Blythe, Virginia Bodle, Helen Kapp...
Production :
1st National
Description :
Charlie is a labourer working on a building site. At the end of the day’s work he joins his mates in a bibulous evening, then makes an accident-ridden journey home. He tries not to awaken his fearsome wife, by sleeping in the bath tub – which proves to be full of water. As soon as he falls asleep, the alarm clock goes off, his wife wakes up, and throws him out to go to work.
Pay Day was Chaplin’s last two-reeler, and again casts him in an unfamiliar role, as a working man and hen-pecked husband. It proved one of his most trouble-free productions and shooting was completed in one month...