Shoulder Arms

1918 NR 36m 7.3

Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

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.

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Info about Shoulder Arms

Studio(s): Charles Chaplin Productions

Originally Released: United States on Oct 27, 1918

Genres: Comedy, Short, War