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Easy Street
Easy Street
7.9
/10
398 Ratings

EASY STREET

Directed by Charlie Chaplin
United States, 1917
Comedy, Short, Silent

Synopsis

In the city slums, a reformed tramp becomes a police constable—and goes toe to toe with a huge thug who dominates the street.

Synopsis

In the city slums, a reformed tramp becomes a police constable—and goes toe to toe with a huge thug who dominates the street.

Our take

After signing with Mutual in 1916—with an unheard-of salary and his own studio!—Charlie Chaplin continued his artistic surge, and Easy Street is one of his best loved short films of this period, tart with comic invention.