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The Cure is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Charlie Chaplin released in USA on 16 april 1917 with Edna Purviance

The Cure (1917)

The Cure
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Released in USA 16 april 1917
Length 30minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating70% 3.543373.543373.543373.543373.54337

The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

Synopsis

Chaplin plays a drunkard who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man suffering from gout, evades him and encounters a beautiful young woman who encourages him to stop drinking. However, when the hotel owner learns his employees are getting drunk off Charlie's liquor, he calls an employee and orders him to have the liquor thrown out the window.

Actors

Edna Purviance

(The Girl)
Eric Campbell

(The Man with the Gout)
Charlie Chaplin

(The Inebriate)
Henry Bergman

(Masseur)
John Rand

(Sanitarium Attendant)
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Charlie Chaplin filmography

The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914) The New Janitor (1914) His Musical Career (1914) Laughing Gas (1914) The Rounders (1914) Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) Mabel's Married Life (1914) Gentlemen of Nerve (1914) Getting Acquainted (1914) His New Profession (1914) The Property Man (1914) The Masquerader (1914) Dough and Dynamite (1914) His Prehistoric Past (1914) His Trysting Places (1914) Those Love Pangs (1914) Recreation (1914) Her Friend the Bandit (1914) A Busy Day (1914) Caught in the Rain (1914) A Night Out (1915) By the Sea (1915) Work (1915) A Night in the Show (1915) The Champion (1915) In the Park (1915) His New Job (1915) The Bank (1915) Shanghaied (1915) His Regeneration (1915) A Woman (1915) A Jitney Elopement (1915) The Tramp (1915) One A.M. (1916) The Pawnshop (1916) The Rink (1916) Behind the Screen (1916) A Burlesque on Carmen (1916) Police (1916) The Count (1916) The Fireman (1916) The Vagabond (1916) The Floorwalker (1916) The Adventurer (1917) The Cure (1917) Easy Street (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Bond (1918) Shoulder Arms (1918) A Dog's Life (1918) Triple Trouble (1918) A Day's Pleasure (1919) The Professor (1919) Sunnyside (1919) The Idle Class (1921) The Kid (1921) Pay Day (1922) The Pilgrim (1923) A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) The Gold Rush (1925) The Circus (1928) City Lights (1931) Modern Times (1936) The Great Dictator (1940) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Limelight (1952) A King in New York (1957) The Chaplin Revue (1959) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

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