Charlie Chaplin (1951)

"Shoulder Arms" 105 at him, the sergeant orders him to "Stop rocking the boat!" A lighted candle comes floating by and Charlie blows it, like a little sailboat, toward Sid's protruding toes, and plays innocent when the hotfooted man awakes. Charlie hunts a more comfortable spot at the other end of the bunk only to have his head submerge. With the help of a phonograph horn as a breathing tube he settles down to a submarine snooze. As zero hour approaches next morning Charlie finds that his identification tag is number 13. Pulling a mirror out of his pocket he primps as a means of bracing his courage. Ordered "over the top," Charlie rushes heroically up the ladder which hurtles him back into the mud. "13 not so unlucky." He is next seen herding a line of captured Germans, among them the little officer, whom Charlie takes in his lap for a spanking. This earns him the admiration of a huge German soldier, who shakes his hand. Asked how he captured them, Charlie makes the now classic reply, "I surrounded them." "Poor France." Iris in on a dejected, shawled French girl sitting in the doorway of her shattered home. At another explosion, she lowers her head into her hands. Iris out. Charlie and the sergeant, "Two of a kind," indulge in a little sharpshooting from within their trench. To open a bottle Charlie holds it up in the range of obliging enemy snipers who shoot off the top. A cigarette is lit in the same manner. Charlie chalks his tally of hits as if he were merely trapshooting or playing billiards. When, peering over the top, his helmet is shot off, he erases the last mark. Then he fires at an unseen airplane. His eyes follow it down to a "crash" — and another mark appears on his scoreboard. There is a call for volunteers and Charlie outstrips his pal. When told "You may never return," he magnanimously yields his place, but the ser