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A Dog's Life

The Little Tramp finds companionship with two fellow outcasts - Scraps, a stray mongrel, and a young girl exploited as a hostess in a disreputable dive, The Green Lantern. With Scraps’ help he overcomes two thieves from whom he wins a well-filled...

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Shoulder Arms

Charlie is recruited to the “awkward squad”. Posted to the front line in France, he encounters all the privations of trench life – snipers, flood, food rations, solitude, lice and other vermin. He meets a French girl, whom he subsequently rescues...


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The Bond

The Bond is a propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense, which he donated to the Liberty Bond drive during World War I. The film is made up of four episodes that illustrate the various bonds: the bond of friendship, the bond of...

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Sunnyside

Charlie is the much-abused man-of-all-work in a run-down farm hotel. Retrieving a stray bull from the local church, he is knocked out, and dreams of taking part in a pastoral dance with nymphs. Awakened, he discovers that his girl is being courted...


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A Day's Pleasure

Charlie, a family man, takes his wife and two small sons for a day’s outing, which is beset by accidents. In their model-T Ford they encounter angry motorists, hostile cops and a newly tarred road. They embark on a pleasure boat where the hazards...

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The Idle Class

Chaplin was experimenting with new roles for his Tramp character. In The Idle Class (1921) he actually plays two roles - the Tramp and a rich young alcoholic husband. Between them they represent the Idle Rich and the Idle Poor. Everyone in the fil...


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Pay Day

Charlie is a labourer working on a building site. At the end of the day’s work he joins his mates in a bibulous evening, then makes an accident-ridden journey home. He tries not to awaken his fearsome wife, by sleeping in the bath tub – which prov...

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The Pilgrim

Charlie, an escaped convict, steals the clothes of a bathing clergyman. Arriving at a remote rural railway station, he is mistaken for the new pastor the community is awaiting. He endeavours to live up to the role, with all its hazards, and foils ...