Busy Little Dentist

IMDb link: 0004210
IMDb rating: 5.6 (1,760 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Short
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Slim Summerville, Fritz Schade, Alice Howell and others

Release date: 9 Jul 1914
Release year: 1914
Runtime: 16 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: anesthesia, club, brick, pliers, drugstore, waiting room, mallet, patient, dentist assistant, mustached man

Plot:

Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia Charlie knocks him out with a club. He is sent to the drug store, gets in a fight with a man who (after a brick in the face) becomes another patient, and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife (who is out walking). At one point Charlie pulls a tooth (the wrong one) using enormous pliers.

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