Charlie Chaplin (1951)

cc 98 victorious. Resting on a doorstep Charlie is licked by the affectionate mongrel. When Scraps fails to get at the milk in a half-filled bottle that Charlie finds nearby, Charlie helps out by dunking the dog's tail. As a team, Charlie and Scraps feed better than when alone. They saunter over to a food stand dispensing freshly made cakes and sausages. Charlie engages the proprietor's attention — and Scraps swipes a string of sausages. Charlie then attends to his own needs wolfing cakes down whole at each turn of the proprietor's back. The proprietor becomes suspicious as the cakes vanish and he sees the dog licking his chops. When he is finally caught Charlie pretends to be brushing flies off the plate. As he is about to make away with the last cake, he sees the cop watching him through the back window. Replacing the cake, Charlie ducks off and the cop is smacked with a big wurst intended to down the fugitive. At night Charlie seeks shelter in the Green Lantern Cafe — "a tender spot in the Tenderloin." Hiding Scraps in his baggy pants, Charlie threads his way through wildly dancing couples, the dog's tail wagging out of a hole in his trousers. At a stop near the orchestra, the wagging tail beats the drum to the mystification of the drummer. "A new singer sings an old song." A simple country girl, seeking a career, comes out on the stage and her drunken auditors applaud her awkward and nervous performance by crying into their beer. With a forlorn smile to Charlie, the girl awakens new life in him. He leads the girl, who is starved for kindness, out on the dance floor, only to come to grief on a large wad of chewing gum. Charlie's struggles to free himself is a wonderful passage of pulls and falls, hilariously complicated by the towing dog. Further comic business follows upon a collision with the diminutive partner of a fat lady equipped with an elastic muff which he snaps, getting into an altercation with her puny escort. He dances away to a table, and when the bartender comes