# Tango Tangle (1914) Directed By Mack Sennett

Tango Tangles Theatrical release poster Directed by Mack Sennett Written by Mack Sennett Produced by Mack Sennett Starring Charles Chaplin Ford Sterling Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Chester Conklin Minta Durfee Cinematography Frank D. Williams Production company Keystone Studios Distributed by Mutual Film Release date March 9, 1914 Running time 12 minutes Country United States Languages Silent film English (Original titles) Chaplin and Arbuckle Tango Tangles is a 1914 American film comedy short starring Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle . \[ 1 \] The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken Chaplin, Ford Sterling , and the huge, menacing, and acrobatic Arbuckle fighting over a girl. The supporting cast also features Chester Conklin and Minta Durfee . The picture was written, directed and produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios and distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. In Tango Tangles , Charlie Chaplin appears without makeup and his usual mustache, baggy pants, and oversized shoes. The film was shot at a dance hall without any sort of formal script. Mack Sennett, in his 1954 autobiography King of Comedy , said of the impromptu nature of Tango Tangles , "We took Chaplin, \[Ford\] Sterling, \[Roscoe\] Arbuckle and \[Chester\] Conklin to a dance hall, turned them loose, and pointed a camera at them. They made funny, and that was it." Tango Tangles marked the last time that Ford Sterling and Chaplin appeared in the same film. Sterling had decided to leave Keystone where…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1914
- By: Mack Sennett
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/tango-tangle-1914-directed-by-mack-sennett)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
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