Shoulder Arms (1918)

1918 · Silent film · 37 min · dir. Charles Chaplin

• War
• Comedy

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Synopsis

Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.

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Details

Director

Charles Chaplin

Running time

37 minutes

Language

English

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• silent films
• Charlie Chaplin
• Charles Chaplin
• WWI
• WW1
• world war one
• tramp
• the great war
• 1918
• silent movies

Cast & crew

• Charles Chaplin Director
• Charles Chaplin
• Edna Purviance
• Syd Chaplin

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