该电影由查理·卓别林执导，查理·卓别林、切斯特·康克林、Cecile Arnold、Vivian Edwards等主演，于1914年上映。在12分钟的叙事中，《竞争对手》（又名：The Rival Mashers）Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall different girls, though Charlie’s has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws his girl’s friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen.