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the classic Mutual comedies 79
The subtitle, "Love Backed by Force; Forgiveness Sweet, Bring Hope and Peace, to Easy Street," introduces the closing scene. The reformed Easy Streeters, including the bully and his wife in their Sunday best, walking sedately to the new Mission with Charlie and Edna joining in the procession.
"The Cure" is probably the funniest of the Mutuals, interlacing fast and hilarious action with subtle pantomime and agile grace. At times it resembles a ballet laid in a sanitarium. Charlie in a light coat and straw hat is wheeled to the spring to take the water cure. The first comic sequence is a mixup in a revolving door with a gouty man whose tender foot is caught. Charlie is given a shove and they go round and round unable to "get off." This is followed by a muscle-feeling sequence in which a pretty nurse is involved. Urged by an attendant to feel his muscle as proof of the effects of the water cure, Charlie also feels the nurse's muscle. Then considering leg muscles as important to feel as arm muscles, he reaches toward the girl — but playfully feels his shoe instead. In another scene Charlie spills his spa water — and blames the puddle on a toy dog.
The gouty man, who happens to wear a fantastic beard, reappears and starts a flirtation with Edna. Charlie, seated between them, mistakes the handwavings and the winks as meant for him. As he turns a love seat, spilling the giant on the floor, he is ordered out — until Edna intercedes for him.
Upstairs the bearded bellhop has been sampling Charlie's trunkful of liquor. The head of the institution orders another drunken bellhop to dispose of Charlie's liquor supply. He carries out the order by tossing the bottles into the spa whose waters then impart unexpected powers.
In a steamroom sequence Charlie assumes statuesque