Love and Rubbish

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

"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.