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Charles Chaplin | ... |
Convict 999 Alias Charlie
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Edna Purviance | ... |
The Girl
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Wesley Ruggles | ... |
The Crook
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John Rand | ... |
The Cop
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Billy Armstrong | ... |
The Miser
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George Cleethorpe | ... |
Policeman at Station with Moustache (uncredited)
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Fred Goodwins | ... |
Honest Preacher / Policeman with Monocle (uncredited)
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Bud Jamison | ... |
Third Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
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James T. Kelley | ... |
Drunk with Pockets Picked / Second Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
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Paddy McGuire | ... |
Fifth Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
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'Snub' Pollard | ... |
First Flophouse Customer (uncredited)
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Leo White | ... |
Fruitseller / Flop House Manager / Policeman (uncredited)
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Directed by
Charles Chaplin | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
Charles Chaplin | ... | () |
Produced by
Jess Robbins | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Robert Israel | ... | (1999) |
Cinematography by
Harry Ensign | ... | (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ernest Van Pelt | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
E.T. Mazy | ... | scenic artist (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- General Film Company (1916) (United States) (theatrical)
- The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (1916) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Inter Arte Films (1974) (Spain) (theatrical) (re-release)
- TF1 (1976) (France) (tv)
- Palace Video (1989) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Tusisa Films (1980) (Spain) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Image Entertainment (1999) (United States) (DVD)
- Delta Music (2003) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- BFI Video (2003) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2004) (World-wide) (video)
- Living Colour Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2007) (World-wide)
- Grapevine Video (United States) (VHS)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis |
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Taglines | Call Out the Reserves for a Riot of Laughs (Print Ad- Hearst's Sunday American, ((Atlanta, Ga.)) 11 June 1916) See more » |
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Trivia | The film was restored in 2014 through the Chaplin Essanay Project. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into Chaplin's Art of Comedy (1966). See more » |