Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms (Scots: Shouder Airms) is Charlie Chaplin's seicont film for First National Pictures. Lowsed in 1918, it is a seelent comedy set in Fraunce durin Warld War I. The main pairt o the film actually occurs in a dream. It co-starned Edna Purviance an Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brither.

Shoulder Arms
Theatrical poster o Shoulder Arms
Directit bi	Charlie Chaplin
Produced bi	Charlie Chaplin
Written bi	Charlie Chaplin
Starnin	Edna Purviance Sydney Chaplin
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh
Eeditit bi	Charles Chaplin
Distributit bi	First National Pictures
Release date	20 October 1918
Rinnin time	36 meen.
Kintra	USA
Leid	Seelent film Inglis interteetles

Creditit cast

• Charles Chaplin ... Charlie, the 'doughboy'
• Edna Purviance ... French lassie
• Syd Chaplin ... The sairgant, Charlie's fere/The Kaiser
• Jack Wilson ... German Croun Prince
• Henry Bergman ... Girthie German sairgant/Field Marshal von Hindenburg/Brewster
• Albert Austin ... American officer/Clean-skived German sodger/Beardie German sodger
• Tom Wilson ... Dumm German wid cutter
• John Rand ... U.S. sodger
• J. Parks Jones ... U.S. sodger (as Park Jones)
• Loyal Underwood ... Smaw German officer
• W.J. Allen ... Motorcyclist
• L.A. Blaisdell ... Motorcyclist
• Wellington Cross ... Motorcyclist
• C.L. Dice ... Motorcyclist
• G.A. Godfrey ... Motorcyclist
• W. Herron ... Motorcyclist

Reception

US advertisement for Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms pruived tae be Chaplin's maist faur ben film, critically an commercially, up tae that pynt. A review in the 21 October 1918 New York Times wis teepical:

(in Inglis)

"'The fool's funny,' was the chuckling observation of one of those who saw Charlie Chaplin's new film. Shoulder Arms, at the Strand yesterday — and, apparently, that's the way everybody felt. There have been learned discussions as to whether Chaplin's comedy is low or high, artistic or crude, but no one can deny that when he impersonates a screen fool he is funny. Most of those who go to find fault with him remain to laugh. They may still find fault, but they will keep on laughing."

See an aa

• Leet o Warld War I films

Fremmit airtins

• Shoulder Arms on IMDb
• Shoulder Arms is available for free dounlaid at the Internet Archive [mair]
• Shoulder Arms review at Charlie Chaplin Reviews Archived 2015-08-13 at the Wayback Machine