His Prehistoric Past is a 1914

1914 in film

The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City....

 American short

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

  silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

, featuring a Chaplin in a stone-age kingdom trying to usurp the crown of King Low-Brow to win the affections of the king's favourite wife. The film was Chaplin's last at Keystone Studios.

Synopsis

Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land (where every man has one thousand wives), he falls in love with the King's favorite wife. When the King falls over a cliff, he is presumed dead and Charlie crowns himself King. The King, however, is not dead and comes back and bashes Charlie over the head with a rock. It turns out it was a dream and a police man bashed Charlie over the head with his club because he was sleeping in the park.

Cast

• Charles Chaplin - Weakchin
• Mack Swain
  Mack Swain
  Mack Swain was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.-Film career:...
  
   - King Lowbrow
• Gene Marsh - Sum-Babee, Lowbrow's Favorite Water Maiden
• Fritz Schade
  Fritz Schade
  Fritz Schade was a German-born American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 41 films between 1913 and 1918, including six films with Charlie Chaplin...
  
    - Sum-Babee, Lowbrow's Favorite Water Maiden
• Cecile Arnold
  Cecile Arnold
  Cecile Arnold was an American silent film actress and Zigfeld Follies girl.- Life :She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1891 or in New York City in 1895 . Born Cecile Laval Arnoux , the blonde known for playing femme fatales was a Ziegfeld Follies girl before moving to Mack Sennett's Keystone...
  
   - Cavewoman
• Al St. John - Caveman
• Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin was an English actor. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin , who was named after him.-Early life:...
  
  - Policeman