Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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cc 23° goes in, he is lost in dreamy revery, with a flower pressed to his nostrils. The revery ends when a cat above dislodges a flower pot on his head. Up on a barrel, under a rain spout, he peeps into her room. A nosy janitor puts an end to that, but gets an unexpected shower when Charlie hops off and flees to his car. The eccentric millionaire, sober, is a different man. He doesn't remember the tramp who, returning to his new friend, is shut out of the house. Needing a smoke, he jumps into his Rolls-Royce, and follows a cigar smoker until he throws away the butt. He beats an old bum to it, then climbs back into his luxurious car, leaving the mystified bum staring. Once more Charlie returns to the mansion. The millionaire, now cold sober, is leaving. He steps into his Rolls-Royce without so much as a glance at the little tramp, and drives off. And the bewildered tramp shuffles away, drawing disconsolately at his cigar butt. In a later encounter, the same day, the millionaire, roaring drunk again, embraces the tramp like a longlost brother and proffers a party in his honor. There Charlie, in an alcoholic daze again, confuses a bald head with a cream pudding. A toy whistle, received as a party favor, goes down his throat when a girl gives him a playful nudge. With every hiccup he now emits a toot, much to the annoyance of a pompous singer who has been invited to perform. Seeking the seclusion of the millionaire's garden, his whistle draws first a taxi, then a pack of dogs. Next morning again the millionaire, as his sober self, remembers nothing of what happened to his drunken self. He stares at the stranger sharing his bed, and orders him thrown out, while he begins packing for a trip to Europe. In the course of the booting out, which involves some delightful foolery with the butler, the little tramp