Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film)

1928 film by A. Edward Sutherland

Tillie's Punctured Romance
Theatrical poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Monte Brice Keene Thompson
Produced by	Al Christie (aka Christie Film Company)
Starring	W. C. Fields Louise Fazenda Chester Conklin Mack Swain
Cinematography	Charles P. Boyle William Wheeler
Edited by	Arthur Huffsmith
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 3, 1928 (1928-03-03)
Running time	57 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway. Written by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson and directed by A. Edward Sutherland, this film has nothing to do with the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film aside from sharing the same title, but Chester Conklin and Mack Swain appear in both films.

Plot

Tillie is a runaway who goes to Frisbee's Colossal Circus, with lions, a ringmaster that wants to take over the circus from the owner, a strong woman, a girl with "a voice of gold and an arm of iron". The group decides to go to the French trenches during World War I in order to entertain the troops, but they all get caught up in a draft and end up serving the German Army as privates while facing the Allies.

Cast

W. C. Fields as Ringmaster
Louise Fazenda as Tillie, a Runaway
Chester Conklin as Circus Owner
Mack Swain as Tillie's Father
Doris Hill as Heroine
Grant Withers as Hero
Tom Kennedy as Property Man
Babe London as Strong Woman
Billy Platt as Midget (credited as William Platt)
Michael Raffetto as Lion tamer
Baron von Dobeneck as Gerrman officer
Alfred Adeline
Tommy Albert
Agnes Allison
Joan Marquis

Preservation

With no prints of Tillie's Punctured Romance located in any film archives, it is a lost film.

References

External links

Tillie's Punctured Romance at IMDb

v t e Films directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Coming Through (1925) Wild, Wild Susan (1925) A Regular Fellow (1925) Behind the Front (1926) It's the Old Army Game (1926) We're in the Navy Now (1926) Love's Greatest Mistake (1927) Fireman, Save My Child (1927) Figures Don't Lie (1927) Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928) The Baby Cyclone (1928) What a Night! (1928) Close Harmony (1929) The Dance of Life (1929) The Saturday Night Kid (1929) Fast Company (1929) Pointed Heels (1929) Burning Up (1930) Paramount on Parade (1930) The Social Lion (1930) The Sap from Syracuse (1930) The Gang Buster (1931) June Moon (1931) Up Pops the Devil (1931) Palmy Days (1931) Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) Secrets of the French Police (1932) Murders in the Zoo (1933) International House (1933) Too Much Harmony (1933) Mississippi (1935) Diamond Jim (1935) Poppy (1936) Every Day's a Holiday (1937) Champagne Waltz (1937) The Flying Deuces (1939) Beyond Tomorrow (1940) The Boys from Syracuse (1940) One Night in the Tropics (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941) Steel Against the Sky (1941) Sing Your Worries Away (1942) The Navy Comes Through (1942) Army Surgeon (1942) Dixie (1943) Follow the Boys (1944) Secret Command (1944) Abie's Irish Rose (1946) Bermuda Affair (1956)

Films directed by A. Edward Sutherland

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