{"id":41747,"date":"2026-05-31T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41747"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:19:34","slug":"the-rink-1916-written-directed-and-starring-charlie-chaplin-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41747","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Rink&#8221; (1916) written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z053126zview_therink.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"757\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Rink <\/i>(1916)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Charlie Chaplin, Edward Brewer <\/strong>(technical director)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Charlie Chaplin, Vincent Bryan, Maverick Terrell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Can you imagine the excruciatingly comedy capers of Charley on a pair of roller skates? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charlie is a terribly clumsy waiter.\u00a0 On his lunch hour Charlie likes to go to the skating rink where he is graceful beyond belief.\u00a0 Still, Charlie being Charlie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chaplin was a man of many talents.\u00a0 He wrote screenplays, acted, directed, produced, composed music and wrote songs.\u00a0 Who knew he could also skate so well?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to his physical comedy, Chaplin made me smile when as a waiter he figured a fat man&#8217;s dinner bill by the stains on his clothes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>The Rink <\/i>(1916)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z053126zview_therink2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rink (1916) Director: Charlie Chaplin, Edward Brewer (technical director) Screenplay: \u00a0Charlie Chaplin, Vincent Bryan, Maverick Terrell Stars:\u00a0 Charlie Chaplin,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41758,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions\/41758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}