About The Cure

Charlie goes to a spa to dry out, but he takes a trunk of liquor with him. He tangles with another man's gouty foot in a revolving door. Later he thinks the gouty man is making love signs to him (he doesn't Edna, the real object of the man's efforts), so he signs back. He interprets a massage to be a wrestling match. When management throws his liquor into the fountain, when flow the healthful waters, everyone gets drunk.

Movie Details

Language: English

Year of production: 1917

Length: 09'38

Country: United States

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  • Directors:
    Charles Chaplin
  • Producers:
    Henry P. Caulfield
    Charles Chaplin
  • Actors:
    Charles Chaplin ... The Inebriate
    Edna Purviance ... The Girl
    Eric Campbell ... The Man with the Gout
    Henry Bergman ... Masseur
    John Rand ... Sanitarium Attendant
    James T. Kelley ... Sanitarium Attendant
    Albert Austin ... Sanitarium Attendant
    Frank J. Coleman ... Head of Sanitarium

Comments

  • Baxter Martin on 18 November at 00:16

    “The Cure” (1917, Chaplin)

    “The Cure” has Chaplin arriving tipsy to a health clinic to supposedly dry out, but he shows up with a trunk full of booze. This film has some memorable scenes but the premise of it is very funny. There are plenty of run-ins with Eric Campbell’s character with the foot cast. Campbell is also Chaplin’s rival for the girl as well, although, poor girl, has to(?) choose between an ogre and a recovering alcoholic who is failing miserably at the recovering part.

    Outside of the hotel is some sort of little fountain or well that has a stone terrace around it and stone benches. Mostly women it seems sit around the ‘ol water cure hole and drink. At some point in the movie, a dude that Charlie had been rough with earlier comes back. The man goes into Chaplin’s hotel room and throws every last bottle of booze (that is the ones that the crazy long-bearded old bellhop didn’t drink) directly into the water hole below. So much for health clinic security! Before long, the entire hotel is trashed.

    There’s a good sequence when Chaplin goes into the spa for a massage with a large guy who looks like he’s practicing wrestling moves on people. “The Cure” seems to lack a number of good sequences but makes up for it a bit with the overall funny factor. It still doesn’t appear to be his best of the Mutual period (this was the 10th film for Mutual, 45th time directing and 67th overall)