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in which some have read social criticism and others satire on puritanism. Charlie, a derelict, wanders into a Mission. Reformed by the minister and the angelic Edna, his first act is to return the collection box he had stolen. There is a terrific street brawl going on in Easy Street, the toughest section of the city. Policemen are carried back on stretchers. Help needed, Charlie gets a job on the force. He overcomes the giant bully by asphyxiating him with the gas street lamp. With Edna he dispenses charity among the poor. The bully escapes and, after a hectic chase, the little policeman overcomes him this time by dropping a stove out of the window. Edna is threatened in a dive. A dope fiend knocking him on his hypodermic needle, Charlie is affected with wondrous superman results. In the end, "Love Backed by Force; Forgiveness Sweet, Bring Hope and Peace, to Easy Street" (sub-title). All the reformed inhabitants walk sedately to the New Mission.
^Outstanding comic scene : Charlie pinning a medal on a little man with a dozen children and tossing food at the brood as if they were chickens.
THE CURE
U.S.A., 1917 2 reels
production company: Mutual
script and direction : Charles Chaplin
photography: William C. Foster and Rollie Totheroh
CAST
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, John Rand, Albert Austin, Frank J. Coleman, James T. Kelley, Henry Bergman
About the funniest of the Mutuals, this comedy — in addition to fast action — also has some subtle pantomime and examples of Chaplin's graceful agility. Charlie (wearing a light coat and straw hat) is wheeled in to take the water cure. While Charlie is being treated by a rough masseur, the drunk bellhop, ordered to dispose of Charlie's trunkful of liquor, tosses the bottles in the well with amazing effects on the patients — and on Charlie, too, who is spun around by the revolving door until he falls in the pool. The next morning, promising Edna to reform, Charlie falls down the well.
* Outstanding scenes: Charlie, spinning in a revolving door, also involves an attendant, a big man with gout; the scene with the nurse who urges Charlie to drink the water and who has to demonstrate her muscles to prove its value; the toy dog blamed for the water Charlie spills; Charlie believes the winks of the big gouty man are for him instead of Edna back of him ; each time the big man opens the curtain in the steamroom, Charlie assumes a different statuesque pose; Charlie's expressions as a man is being pounded by the masseur and his proclaiming of the latter as "the winner" ; his tripping of two drunks who annoy Edna, gallantly moving the "bodies" with his cane so she can pass.
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