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Shoulder Arms is a american film of genre War directed by Charles Reisner released in USA on 27 october 1918 with Charlie Chaplin

Shoulder Arms (1918)

Shoulder Arms
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Released in USA 27 october 1918
Length 46minutes
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres War,    Comedy
Rating72% 3.642223.642223.642223.642223.64222

Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy set in France during World War I. The main part of the film actually occurs in a dream. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother. It is Chaplin's shortest feature film.

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.

Actors

Charlie Chaplin

(Doughboy)
Edna Purviance

(The Girl)
Sydney Chaplin

(Charlie's Comrade / The Kaiser)
Henry Bergman

(Fat Whiskered Soldier / The Kaiser's General / Bartender)
Albert Austin

(American Soldier / Clean Shaven German Soldier / Bearded German Soldier)
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Charlie Chaplin filmography

The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914) The New Janitor (1914) His Musical Career (1914) Laughing Gas (1914) The Rounders (1914) Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) Mabel's Married Life (1914) Gentlemen of Nerve (1914) Getting Acquainted (1914) His New Profession (1914) The Property Man (1914) The Masquerader (1914) Dough and Dynamite (1914) His Prehistoric Past (1914) His Trysting Places (1914) Those Love Pangs (1914) Recreation (1914) Her Friend the Bandit (1914) A Busy Day (1914) Caught in the Rain (1914) A Night Out (1915) By the Sea (1915) Work (1915) A Night in the Show (1915) The Champion (1915) In the Park (1915) His New Job (1915) The Bank (1915) Shanghaied (1915) His Regeneration (1915) A Woman (1915) A Jitney Elopement (1915) The Tramp (1915) One A.M. (1916) The Pawnshop (1916) The Rink (1916) Behind the Screen (1916) A Burlesque on Carmen (1916) Police (1916) The Count (1916) The Fireman (1916) The Vagabond (1916) The Floorwalker (1916) The Adventurer (1917) The Cure (1917) Easy Street (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Bond (1918) Shoulder Arms (1918) A Dog's Life (1918) Triple Trouble (1918) A Day's Pleasure (1919) The Professor (1919) Sunnyside (1919) The Idle Class (1921) The Kid (1921) Pay Day (1922) The Pilgrim (1923) A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) The Gold Rush (1925) The Circus (1928) City Lights (1931) Modern Times (1936) The Great Dictator (1940) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Limelight (1952) A King in New York (1957) The Chaplin Revue (1959) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

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