Shoulder Arms
1918 · 36 min · US
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin, 1918, First National: the Tramp as a doughboy in the trenches, then behind the German lines in a dream that the film does not bother to label as a dream until it has to. Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin as the Kaiser. The tree disguise, the flooded dugout, the letter from home. Released weeks before the Armistice. It is a war comedy that treats the war as a job, and the job as something you can win in your sleep.
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