Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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cc 130 provide against similar mishaps he carves a hole in the seat of a chair, places the chair under the hammock and a spittoon under the chair. Five years pass. We see the Kid sitting on the curb manicuring his nails with all the aplomb of his foster father. Upstairs there is an inspection of his hands and ears before the Tramp and the Kid go out on their day's work. The Kid's part is to throw stones at a window and run. The Tramp, as an itinerant glazier, "happens by" after the accident and is hired to repair the damage. About to make another throw, the Kid's hand contacts a burly policeman right behind him. Pretending to be juggling the stone, the Kid tosses it to the ground and runs off. The cop's suspicions deepen when he sees the Tramp at work. The Tramp asks a dollar for his job but, noticing the cop, returns it to the woman. While the cop watches the Kid tries to join his father who keeps kicking him away as if he were a barking puppy. In a long rear shot we see them trailed by the cop, whom they finally shake by a dash around a corner. On 'Job 13," the Tramp, with his arm innocently around a woman's waist, disposes her so that she can view his handicraft. The woman scolds him and he doffs his hat in apology, but maneuvers himself into the crook of her arm as she leans on the window sill — and then playfully taunts her. She laughingly pokes him with her elbow and he is about to return the poke with his trowel as the cop enters his house. Grabbed around the neck from behind, the Tramp first thinks it is the woman. Discovering his mistake, a chase follows up back alleys. The Tramp and the Kid manage to elude the policeman. In their room they have a banquet at which the Kid daintily uses a "finger" bowl after demolishing his sizable pile of fodder. Meanwhile the mother has risen to heights as an opera singer. Material success, however, has not extinguished