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About Shoulder Arms

Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.

Movie Details

Language: Silent
Year: 1918
Length: 35min 42sec
Country: United States

Directors:
Charles Chaplin
Producers:
Charles Chaplin
Actors:
Charles Chaplin ... Recruit
Edna Purviance ... French girl
Syd Chaplin ... Sergeant/The Kaiser
Jack Wilson ... German Crown Prince
Henry Bergman ... Fat German sergeant/Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Albert Austin ... U.S. soldier/German soldier/Kaiser's chauffeur
Tom Wilson ... Training camp sergeant
John Rand ... U.S. soldier
J. Parks Jones ... U.S. soldier (as Park Jones)
Loyal Underwood ... Short German officer