Episodic story of poor Chaplin tramp getting by with his wits, adopting a dog, romancing a woman, and settling down as a happy farmer.
It's pretty funny. Chaplin does well with slapstick, but maybe the most amusing scene is one in which he bops a thief on the head, renders him unconscious, then hides behind him and substitutes his, Chaplin's, own arms and hands for that of the knocked-out thief.
I wonder who started this routine. It almost always works. It worked in "Young Frankenstein" and "I Love Lucy." Maybe Aristophanes.
The dogs here are superlative actors. Really, I don't know how they managed to wrangle one and get him to take a bite of Chaplin's loose trousers while Chaplin whirls round and round with the dog floating behind him.
And it's interesting to see Chaplin courting a middle-aged woman of no particular beauty instead of one of his main squeezes like Edna Purviance. Not that there's a lot of sentiment expressed.
It's pretty funny. Chaplin does well with slapstick, but maybe the most amusing scene is one in which he bops a thief on the head, renders him unconscious, then hides behind him and substitutes his, Chaplin's, own arms and hands for that of the knocked-out thief.
I wonder who started this routine. It almost always works. It worked in "Young Frankenstein" and "I Love Lucy." Maybe Aristophanes.
The dogs here are superlative actors. Really, I don't know how they managed to wrangle one and get him to take a bite of Chaplin's loose trousers while Chaplin whirls round and round with the dog floating behind him.
And it's interesting to see Chaplin courting a middle-aged woman of no particular beauty instead of one of his main squeezes like Edna Purviance. Not that there's a lot of sentiment expressed.