Easy Street
1917 · 26 min · US
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin, Mutual, Lone Star studio, Hollywood, released 22 January 1917. A derelict (Chaplin) hears a mission sermon, notices Edna Purviance, and signs on as a policeman assigned to Easy Street, where Eric Campbell, the neighborhood bully, treats the new badge as a toy. Two reels. Chaplin built a slum block on the lot: tenements, a police station, a mission front. The lamppost gag and the dope-in-the-lamp business are the reel's machinery, already playing like a small feature among the Mutuals.
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Roland Totheroh
cinematographer
Charlie Chaplin
writer
William C. Forster
cinematographer
Vincent Bryan
writer
Maverick Terrell
writer
