Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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"A Dog's Life" — first masterpiece 97 Charlie, who serves himself a free lunch, through a hole in the fence. He is about to begin eating when he sees a cop's face glaring over the back fence. Hastily Charlie returns the food. The cop tries to coax him out but Charlie resists the blandishments. When the cop enters from behind, Charlie eludes him by rolling through a gap under the fence into the street. When the cop returns to the street, Charlie rolls back into the lot. From there he reaches out to untie the policeman's shoe laces and stick him with a pin. After having exhausted the cop, as he thinks, by rolling in and out, he considers himself safe, raises to take a circus bow, only to have his outstretched hand touch the badge of another cop and his expression changes radically. However, he manages to escape. Outside an employment office Charlie sees an offer of brewery jobs and rushes in, only to be knocked down and shoved off the bench by competing jobhunters. As the office is opened and a call is given, Charlie rushes forward but is shouldered from one window, and then from the other, just as he reaches each. He dashes madly back and forth only to miss out every time. Finally, just as he gets a place before a window, it shuts in his face. He skids into the clerk who comes out to rub off the blackboard. No more jobs. Scraps, who also lives in dread of the big district cop, comes upon some food in the middle of the street. Immediately other dogs rush in from all sides to grab for it. Charlie, sitting disconsolately by the curb, fastidiously sifting trash, notes the growing looseness of his trousers. His attention drawn to the predicament of Scraps, he joins the dog fight, lifts up the victim, and runs down the street pursued by the howling animals. The melee causes a small riot with screaming women running in all directions and pushcarts tipping over. Though one attacking dog, fastening onto his coattail, gets away with a considerable section of his pants, Charlie and Scraps emerge