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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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The Mutuals at their densest: a slum block built on the lot, a mission, a giant bully, and a lamppost used as an anesthetic. Every gag comes out of the geography. Watch the street at the end, reformed and swept. The road is a block long here.
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