Charlie Chaplin (1951)

cc 194 The piano and violin strike up a dance tune. Georgia turns and smiles and Charlie's face lights up, ecstatically, only to discover, as the girl nears, that her smile was for the man behind him. For consolation he goes to the bar, snatches a drink from a passing waiter, and pats his chest and rear as the drink goes down. Sitting alone and bored, Georgia looks right past Charlie who picks up her torn photograph. But when Cameron comes up to claim her as partner she shows her contempt by dancing off with the enraptured Charlie. Bad luck, however, follows to trip him up. Hooking up his slipping pants with his cane is not quite enough. Seeing a rope on a table, he uses it as a belt. Unfortunately the other end of the rope is attached to a large dog, who complicates the dance steps and brings his brief and troubled bliss to an end as sight of a cat takes him away — and Charlie contacts the floor — to the crowd's great amusement. Georgia finds Charlie too useful a foil against Cameron to give him up. She picks up a rose and, to mock Jack, gives it to Charlie. Cameron decides the matter has gone far enough and starts to pummel Charlie to keep him from following Georgia. Cornered against a post Charlie does some resourceful kicking. Cameron fools Charlie by offering his hand and, as Charlie's guard is lowered, pulls his derby down over his eyes. A chance punch by the little fellow hits a post, jarring the balcony clock down on Cameron's head to score a knockout. With a hitch at his capacious trousers, Charlie struts triumphantly through the awed crowd. The following morning Charlie, peering through the window of the cabin of a man named Hank, sees him cooking beans. He lies down in the snow and when Hank comes out he finds a man frozen "stiff." Carried in, Charlie thaws back to "life." When Hank is not looking Charlie sugars and stirs his coffee, then shuts his eyes