Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client’s clock while examining it in detail.
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client’s clock while examining it in detail.
This two-reel Chaplin charmer was the icon’s sixth film for Mutual Film Corporation. Featuring a celebrated scene of miraculous slapstick in a pawn shop, The Pawn Shop also marked Henry Bergman’s first appearance in a Chaplin film, a collaboration that would continue until his death in 1946.