| Release Date: | Oct 1918 |
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| Genres: | War / Comedy |
| Runtime: | 46 min |
| Cast: | Charles Chaplin (Recruit), Edna Purviance (French girl) Syd Chaplin (The Kaiser) Jack Wilson (German Crown Prince) Henry Bergman (Field Marshal von Hindenburg) Albert Austin (U.S. soldier / German soldier /...) Tom Wilson (Training camp sergeant) John Rand (U.S. soldier) J. Parks Jones (U.S. soldier (as Park Jones)) Loyal Underwood (Short German officer) W.J. Allen (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) L.A. Blaisdell (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) A.D. Blake (Soldier (uncredited)) Cliff Brouwer (Soldier (uncredited)) E. Brucker (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) F.S. Colby (Soldier (uncredited)) Slim Cole (Soldier (uncredited)) Wellington Cross (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) E.H. Devere (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) C.L. Dice (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) M.J. Donovan (Soldier (uncredited)) Guy Eakins (Soldier (uncredited)) Fred Everman (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Mark Faber (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) G.A. Godfrey (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Harry Goldman (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Fred Graham (Soldier (uncredited)) W.E. Graham (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) James Griffin (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) William Hackett (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Ray Hanford (Soldier (uncredited)) A.J. Hartwell (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) O.E. Haskins (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Tom Hawley (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Carl Herlinger (Bit part (uncredited)) W. Herron (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Ed Hunt (Soldier (uncredited)) E.B. Johnson (Soldier (uncredited)) Charles Knuske (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Sam Lewis (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Tom Madden (Soldier (uncredited)) G.E. Marygold (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Clyde McAtee (Soldier (uncredited)) Robert McKenzie (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) A. North (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Louis Orr (Soldier (uncredited)) J.T. Powell (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Jack Shalford (Soldier (uncredited)) J.H. Shewry (Bit part in street scene (uncredited)) Joe Van Meter (Soldier (uncredited)) W.G. Wagner (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Tiny Ward (Soldier (uncredited)) J.H. Warne (Motorcyclist (uncredited)) Jack Willis (Soldier / Bit part in street scene...) |
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.
