| Tillie's Punctured Romance | |
| Director: | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Producer: | Al Christie (aka Christie Film Company) |
| Starring: | W. C. Fields Louise Fazenda Chester Conklin Mack Swain |
| Cinematography: | Charles P. Boyle William Wheeler |
| Editing: | Arthur Huffsmith |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 57 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway.[1] Written by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson and directed by A. Edward Sutherland, this film has nothing to do with the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film aside from sharing the same title, but Chester Conklin and Mack Swain appear in both films.
Tillie is a runaway who goes to Frisbee's Colossal Circus, with lions, a ringmaster that wants to take over the circus from the owner, a strong woman, a girl with "a voice of gold and an arm of iron". The group decides to go to the French trenches during World War I in order to entertain the troops, but they all get caught up in a draft and end up serving the German Army as privates while facing the Allies.
With no prints of Tillie's Punctured Romance located in any film archives,[2] it is a lost film.