Shoulder Arms
Unprecedented in film annals!
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.
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Screenplay
Cast
Charles Chaplin
Doughboy
Edna Purviance
The Girl
Syd Chaplin
Charlie's Comrade
Syd Chaplin
The Kaiser
Loyal Underwood
Short German Officer
Henry Bergman
Fat Whiskered German Soldier
Henry Bergman
The Kaiser's General
Henry Bergman
Bartender
Tom Wilson
Dumb German Wood-Cutter
Albert Austin
American Officer
Albert Austin
Clean Shaven German Soldier
Albert Austin
Bearded German Soldier
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Jack Wilson
Crown Prince
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W.J. Allen
Motorcyclist
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L.A. Blaisdell
Motorcyclist