Police Clippings 9/38
Moving Picture World, New York, May 20, 1916.
Police Scenes
& THEY HAVE BEEN GUNNING FOR CHARLIE CHAPLIN,
AND AT LAST HE HAS BEEN CAPTURED.
(...) Cartoon Motion Picture, May 1916
„He is constantly dodging policemen“
Editorial content. „Chaplin‘s Latest Feature, The Police is Here
This New Vehicle of Tremendous
Laugh-Getting Possibilities Ranks With His Greatest Work.
The preceding Essanay-Chaplin release,
Charley Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen, broke all attendance
records in the history of every theater where shown.
Police is its only rival – another comet amidst a firmament
of film. ,One of my greatest pictures,‘ said Chaplin
when he completed it. It is not any greater than Carmen, but
it is still great. Carmen kept spectators laughing all
the while; so will Police. Both of them are comedy classics.
In this picture Chaplin is a released convict.
A prison parson exhorts him to go straight, but takes the $5
which was given him on his discharge. Chaplin‘s
efforts to recover his money are mirth-provoking. He falls
in with a burgler whom he knew in prison. They try
to break into a house. The ,Jimmy‘ will not open the window,
so Chaplin walks in the door, which was open
all the time.
He breaks open the mail box, the piano and the kitchen
stove – being a rather inexperienced burglar – and then
contents himself with stealing the flowers off the table, much
to the disgust of his accomplice, who takes the rings
of the lady of the house. She saves Chaplin from arrest when
the police come, and gives him some chance. He goes
to a 10-cent lodging house and demoralizes the place, showing
the others how to quiet noisy guests. He accomplished
this in a simple manner, merely striking them over the head
with bottles.
His burglar friend comes in, and with a free-for-all fight
Chaplin recovers the lady‘s jewels and returns them
to her next day. Then a policeman whom Chaplin had never
done anything to, except hit on the head with a mallet,
chases him off the steps just when he had hopes of winning
the wealthy widow. If there is anything funnier than
Chaplin‘s walk, it is his run. He is constantly dodging policemen
in a manner to cause merriment to all.“
Police is released by Essanay May 27, 1916.
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