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Underrated and clever

By Michael Harbour on January 17, 2012

Quite a good film and deserving of more attention than it gets. It’s a standard Tramp set up with a series of gags, like you expect in Chaplin’s short films, but with the canny editing and attention to story of his masterpieces. Among my favorite segments has the circus clowns teaching the Tramp some standard vaudeville routines which the Tramp unintentionally escalates through innocent error. A brilliant way to utilize and improve on the old vaudeville bits which had by this time been done to death in the early silent films