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[wrang wird or uiss o Scots] occurs in a dream. It co-starned Edna Purviance an Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brither.
Shoulder Arms | |
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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 |
Plot
eeditCreditit cast
eedit- 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[wrang wird or uiss o Scots]
- 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
eeditShoulder Arms pruived[wrang wird or uiss o Scots] tae be Chaplin's maist popular 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
eeditFremmit airtins
eedit- 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