Charlie Chaplin (1951)

cc 192 Larsen is subdued, and Jim takes over the cabin. Charlie, at his side, seconds Jim's words and actions. The unappreciative Jim glares at the little man who, with a meek smile, again gives him the bone and puts his arms around him. The three famished men and a dog are snowbound. As Jim raves, Charlie samples a candle, salting it as if it were a stalk of celery. When Jim returns from the back room, picking his teeth, Charlie whistles for the dog and is relieved to find him alive. The three men cut cards to see who is to go out foraging. Larsen is picked. Coming across two mounted police, who have been trailing him, the outlaw shoots them both and goes off with their sled. Thanksgiving Day finds the two men so hungry they cook up one of Charlie's shoes. With all the nuances of a French chef, Charlie lifts the shoe from the smoking pot, expertly tries a fork in it to see if it is done, places it on a dish, bastes it with "gravy," sharpens his knife, carves it, separates the uppers from the sole, passes the nailstudded sole to Big Jim who rejects it and takes the tenderer uppers. Charlie attacks the sole with a gourmet's relish, twists the shoe laces around his fork like spaghetti, and sucks the nails as if they were marrow bones. Discovering a nail bent in the shape of a wishbone, he holds it out to his bewildered companion. Later, their hunger still unappeased, Charlie returns empty-handed from a foraging expedition and warms his now burlap-wrapped foot in the oven. At his suggestion of dining on the other shoe Jim becomes hysterical. In Jim's ensuing delirium Charlie is transformed into a chicken who, in the dissolve upon this transformation, struts about and roosts at the table. When the fowl dissolves back to Charlie, Jim, with a lunatic laugh, explains that he thought his friend was a chicken. A second transformation occurs while Charlie is bending over the stove and the hunger-maddened Jim chases him around