Eric flexes his muscles and grabs the top of the lamppost, bending it down.

The street set is great, and evokes a kind of generic image of urban squalor, that could as easily be New York, LA, or London. There are others I like better, including “The Cure,” “The Vagabond,” and the restored version of “Police,” but this is a contender.

The lamppost used in the famous scene between Charlie Chaplin and Eric Campbell fell on Chaplin during filming, requiring his hospitalization. Feeling sympathetic, he goes across the street to where a fruit vendor snoozes peacefully, and steals more food for her, loading her up with ill-gotten gains. He returns home – to his wife Charlotte!

( Log Out /  Working-class ruffians are beating the stuffing out of the few police officers brave enough to go there, and we see them returned to the station on stretchers, their uniforms torn and shredded. Livraison gratuite. Rather a vulgar joke for 1916!

The grateful waif collapses from hunger and the weight of the food, so Charlie and Edna help her up the stairs to her apartment.

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Format: Super 8. ou Offre directe. Unfortunately for Charlie, Easy Street is ruled by the iron fist of a bully, played wonderfully by Eric Campbell. Charlie Chaplin’s first movie in 1917 has some surprising elements, including a reversal of his usual relationship to authority.

There are several indications that the rioters are meant to be read as “foreign” or immigrants as well.

Then there’s an extended bit in which Chaplin agrees to hold a baby for another parishioner, and accidentally spills the milk from its bottle onto his pants – but thinks that the baby has wet itself (and him), and tries to foist the fouled brat back onto its mother.

But, what’s really remarkable here is the way Charlie has reversed his role and that of the villains. Easy Street; Directed by: Charles Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director) Produced by: Henry P. Caulfield: Written by: Charles Chaplin Vincent Bryan Maverick Terrell: Starring: Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Eric Campbell: Cinematography: Roland Totheroh George C. Zalibra: Edited by: Charles Chaplin: Distributed by: Mutual Film Corporation: Release date.

He defeats them and escapes. 35,00 EUR.

Edna Purviance as the mission worker who reaches Charlie the Tramp. Co-starring Eric Campbell as the bully who terrorizes the slum.

Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, is homeless and hungry so he steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace. Finally, Eric turns around and sees that he’s being hit, so Charlie tries hitting harder, but with no effect. Finally, they drag the unconscious brute back to the station and cuff him. He sees an emaciated woman (Charlotte Mineau) with a bundle hidden under her blouse.

In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order on the titular Easy Street, and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman.

When Eric chases him, we do get some very explicit exteriors of Los Angeles, which kind of ruins the illusion for me, but if you ignore that it’s a great location.

In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order on the titular Easy Street, and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman.

The gags in the early part of the film involve sounds that the audience imagines but can’t hear – Edna’s singing, Charlie laughing during the pastor’s sermon, a neighboring parishioner trying to get Charlie to sing along with the choir, etc. REVUE FILM charlie chaplin EASY STREET 8940 120M super 8 S8 8mm MOVIE noir blanc.

He uses his full body to give shrugs and express sympathy, his face lights up when he sees Edna, and he does his patented one-foot turn-hop during the chase sequences. Hefa-Lot films Super 8 complets-Charlie Chaplin,Laurel&Hardy. This movie reminds me a lot of the old “Popeye” cartoons, which may have been partly inspired by it.

4,99 EUR de frais de livraison. Debris is strewn in the street, but things appear to be quiet. Charlie Chaplin’s first movie in 1917 has some surprising elements, including a reversal of his usual relationship to authority.

Charlie conquers all (after accidentally being injected by an illegal drug by sitting on the needle), and Easy Street is transformed, as is Eric the no-longer-Tough. Meanwhile, Eric Campbell breaks out of the handcuffs.

Change ). With things now peaceful on Easy Street, Charlie returns to walking his beat. Eric doesn’t appear to notice, so Charlie hits him again. Finally, he tricks Eric into looking into the receiver, giving him a chance to bop him on the head with his billy club. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Eric, however, escapes jail and kidnaps Edna.

Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. This is not the typical Hollywood glorified version, but a truly dirty, depressing, honest view.

Reflecting his improving budgets and extended production time, he built an entire street on a sound stage and used it to considerable effect. Charlie is dropped into the same room through a manhole and accidentally sits on the needle. In particular, he has to use his wits to defeat one particular, hulking bully who seems determined to pound Charlie into jelly. As proof of his repentance, he returns the collection box that he had been stealing!

Now Edna walks up and sees Charlie 1) employed and 2) performing an act of charity (she doesn’t know the food is stolen). Charlie is unable to defeat Eric the Tough. Aug 20, 2016 - Charlie Chaplin in Easy Street c.1917.

They quickly start fighting, with Charlotte throwing various pieces of crockery at Campbell, but with his great strength he gets the upper hand. Charlie finally overcomes Eric by running back to the apartment and dropping a heavy iron stove from the window onto Eric’s head. All of the policemen conk him on the head with their bully clubs simultaneously, repeatedly, but it does no good.

Charlot policeman (Easy Street) est une comédie réalisé par Charles Chaplin en1917.

The movie begins similarly to “The Champion” and other familiar shorts, with Chaplin… Usually, his antagonists are rich, snobby people, but here they are the poor.

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In a wonderful scene, after Charlie bops Eric on the head with his nightstick, Eric offers Chaplin more attempts. The camera tracks towards him as Campbell stalks up behind, still wearing the policeman’s cap. He repeatedly sends up the Keystone Kops, both in his own performance and his use of the other policemen. Professional clown for over 25 years - happily married, with 5 children and 1 grandson, Dedicated to the history and performance of clowning. Who, after his reformation, becomes the cop on the beat who has to stop Eric the bully. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. Charlie, finally realizing he’s in danger, sidles up to a lamppost that has a police emergency phone on it. While this goes on, various lowlifes nab Edna and drag her to an underground lair.

The movie once again shows his talent for slapstick, as well as a newly increased confidence as a filmmaker. Given the opportunity to organize my… The police are very afraid to come to Easy Street, even in a large group, and when a small child points his finger at them and goes “bang!” they all skitter in fear. Easy Street (1917) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Anyway, the real plot of the film gets started once the sermon is over. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org.

It begins with Charlie as the Little Tramp (a tramp in the truest sense of the word in this film, homeless and sleeping on a park bench) wandering into a mission, where he is smitten by the lovely Edna Purviance, and becomes converted while listening to a minister’s sermon.

A reformed Charlie becomes a policeman, and is assigned to the inner city ghetto of Easy Street. Charlie Chaplin perseveres (at least temporarily) by putting Eric’s head in a street light (this film takes place prior to the advent of electric street lights) and uses the gas from the street lamp to anesthetize Eric.

Charlie recovers it and returns it, and Edna encourages him to “reform” and get a job.

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A hero to the people of Easy Street, Charlie Chaplin helps many poor people in the neighborhood.

You can watch it for free: here (no music) or here (with music).

He awakes to the lovely tones of Edna Purviance leading the choir at the Hope Mission, and ventures inside.

Eric Campbell intimidates other rioters and controls the street as a bully, wearing his spoils – a policeman’s cap.

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Thinking fast, Charlie pulls the lamp over Eric’s head, turning up the gas.

Now that he has experience catching crooks, Charlie thinks it would be a good idea to join the police force.

Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Usually, Charlie is the underdog pursued by police. When Charlie arrives at Easy Street, the riot is over, or at least there’s a lull. Here, he’s a cop (though he still has his own code of ethics, as we see when he steals food for a hungry woman). And again. Charlie is informed that Easy Street will be his beat, but he has no idea what he’s in for. He confronts her and sees the food she has stolen. Meanwhile, Edna is being menaced by a man who uses a hypodermic needle before becoming amorous/threatening.

Immigrants are usually sympathetic figures for Chaplin, as we will soon see with “The Immigrant.” It may also surprise modern audiences to see such explicit references to drug-use in a silent comedy, but Douglas Fairbanks pushed the theme much further in “Mystery of the Leaping Fish.”. January 22, 1917 () Running time. Most cast lists I find online indicate that some of them are “anarchists” (a political category usually associated with Eastern or Mediterranean immigrants at the time), and there is a portrait of Czar Nicholas II on the wall of the room where Edna is held. Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.