Easy Street

1917

Comedy

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75%
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 6179 6.2K

drug abuse slapstick comedy police officer criminal gang little tramp missionary church

Director

Charles Chaplin Photo
Charles Chaplin

Top cast

Charles Chaplin Photo
Charles Chaplin as The Derelict
Frank J. Coleman Photo
Frank J. Coleman as Mission Visitor
Loyal Underwood Photo
Loyal Underwood as Father of Many Children
Edna Purviance Photo
Edna Purviance as The Mission Worker
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242.4 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 26 min
Seeds 3
450.06 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
12 hr 26 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JoeytheBrit 7 / 10

One of Chaplin's Better Shorts.

This is the one in which Chaplin gets a job as a policemen and is given the prime task of policing Easy Street, a notorious hotspot of vice and crime, from which the police are usually wheeled back to the station in a wheelbarrow. Eric Campbell, often seen in Chaplin films as an upper-class braggart with an elaborate beard here plays a clean-shaven bully who rules the street with an iron fist, and it's not long before Chaplin has to go head to head with him.This one is pretty funny. The street has such a reputation that even an 8-year-old kid can scare the police. To defeat Campbell's bully, Chaplin has to trap his head in the gas lamp of a suspiciously rubbery lamppost. One aspect of the film that looks quite bizarre today is the way that one character who is clearly a junkie is portrayed as a figure of fun.
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Reviewed by grantss 7 / 10

Entertaining, but not among Chaplin's best

Entertaining, but not among Chaplin's best.

Interesting plot: the Tramp becomes a policeman! (It could happen...). From here many adventures ensue.

Has the usual Chaplin slapstick and sight gags but also has some darker themes: bullying, abuse of power, power-madness, instant fame and even drug abuse (though here it appears more of an advert for drugs - it was 1917 I guess, so they didn't know better).

However, it is not as powerful, clever or laugh-a-minute as Chaplin's later stuff. Chaplin's gags seem less well thought-out and more about cheap laughs here. I guess he was still honing his craft and exploring his own boundaries.

Good performances. Eric Campbell is scary as the bully, he of the fearsome eyebrows.

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