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Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy film set in France during World War I, the first of three films he made on the subject of war. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's elder brother. In this film, Chaplin is never in his Little Tramp outfit.
May 3, 2023 · Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin’s second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy film set in France during World War I, the first of three films he made on the subject of war. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin’s elder brother.
Shoulder Arms: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood. Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
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- Short, Comedy, War
- Charles Chaplin
- 1918-10-27
Description : Charlie is recruited to the “awkward squad”. Posted to the front line in France, he encounters all the privations of trench life – snipers, flood, food rations, solitude, lice and other vermin. He meets a French girl, whom he subsequently rescues from the German troops.
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Aug 28, 2006 · Shoulder Arms (1918) is a prime example of the most important aspect of Charlie Chaplin's artistry - his ability to gracefully skirt the line between comedy and tragedy. Initially, Chaplin's decision to make a farce based on the horrors of World War I was met with considerable skepticism; Cecil B. DeMille even tried to talk him out of it.
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Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1918 • United States. From the depths of a trench in war-torn France, Chaplin supplies a little levity to a stark situation as an American soldier dreams of one day becoming a WWI hero.
