The Fatal Mallet

Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Mack Sennett with a mallet, 1914: three men, one girl, a park, and a weapon that keeps changing hands. Keystone. Chaplin is already playing dirty; Sennett is the boss who put himself in the shot. It is a one-reeler about force as courtship, and the mallet is the only honest character.