Love and Rubbish

"Love and Rubbish" is pretty typical for a Keystone comedy of 1913 (the year before Chaplin came to work for the studio). It seems to only have a broad outline as a script and the film depended more on people acting goofy than actually being a funny film. But on the positive side, it relies less on broad slapstick (punching, kicking and wildly shooting guns) than many of these comedies.

Ford Sterling stars as a guy whose job it is to keep the park clean. His rival is another guy with the same job and both spend much of the film trying to catch a woman. Later, they think a kid was stuck in a barrel and they go to rescue them.

Not too many jokes in this one. But also pretty typical of a Keystone film from the era. Not bad but definitely a film only for silent fanatics, like me.

Ford Sterling appears in this as Mr. Fickle. He flirts with women in the park and starts considerable trouble. His rival rides down hill in a barrel into the lake. The children thumbing their noses at the close was a bad piece of business in an otherwise fairly good reel. Many exhibitors will prefer to cut this off. - The Moving Picture World, July 19, 1913