20 Minutes of Love

(1914)

Comedy / Silent

20 minutes

Directed by Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Minta Durfee and Edgar Kennedy

Charlie is among a number of loving couples in the park. He parodies one couple by embracing a tree. A girl asks her beau for a love token. The beau steals a pocket watch from a sleeping man, Charlie gets it away from him and gives it to the girl. He later gets it back and tries to sell it to the original owner who calls a policeman.  Many park visitors wind up getting tossed into the lake.