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PAY DAY, released April 2nd, 1922

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Pay Day was Charlie's final two-reel effort, while I don't believe it's one of his best films, it certainly has some entertaining moments.

Charlie used reverse photography for the bricklaying sequence.
Phyllis Allen plays Charlie's battle-ax wife.
A drunken night out. Syd Chaplin is on the left. Both he and Charlie had experience playing drunks in vaudeville.
Charlie's use of artificial lighting for the nighttime street car scene was sophisticated for the time.


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