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Easy Street - Movie Review |
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Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film by Charlie Chaplin. It takes place on a street similar to where Chaplin himself was born, a despairing world beset by gangs, domestic violence, alcoholics and a tenuous authority represented by the church and police. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, that steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace. When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is assigned to rough-and-tumble Easy Street. Unable to trick or beat Eric the Tough, he puts Eric's head in a gas pipe and anesthetizes him. A hero, he now helps many poor people living on Easy Street. Eric escapes jail, Edna is kidnapped, but Charlie (recharged after sitting on a doper's needle) conquers all. Easy Street is transformed as is Eric.
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Easy Street - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: Charles Chaplin Produced by: Henry P Caulfield Written by: Charles Chaplin Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell Crew: Charles Chaplin, Edward Brewer, George C Zalibra, Roland H Totheroh Copyright: Public Domain Format: Silent, Black + White Duration: 19 mins Year: 1917 Tags: Chaplin, Comedy, Slapstick, Vaudville |
Easy Street Trivia - Did You Know?Chaplin later reflected on his use of a policeman as an adversary. “If there is one human type more than any other that the whole wide world has it in for, it is the policeman type. Of course, the policeman isn’t really to blame for the public prejudice against his uniform—it’s just the natural human revulsion against any sort of authority—but just the same everybody loves to see the copper get it where the chicken got the axe.” Related FilmsIn the Park | Burlesque On Carmen | A Jitney Elopement | His New Job | A Woman | |
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