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Overview
Release Date:
20 October 1918 (USA) morePlot:
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Perhaps it's what all soldiers dream of before they go to war. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Charles Chaplin | ... | Recruit | |
| Edna Purviance | ... | French girl | |
| Syd Chaplin | ... | Sergeant / The Kaiser (as Sydney Chaplin) | |
| Jack Wilson | ... | German Crown Prince | |
| Henry Bergman | ... | Fat German sergeant / Field Marshal von Hindenburg | |
| Albert Austin | ... | U.S. soldier / German soldier / Kaiser's chauffeur | |
| Tom Wilson | ... | Training camp sergeant | |
| John Rand | ... | U.S. soldier | |
| J. Parks Jones | ... | U.S. soldier (as Park Jones) | |
| Loyal Underwood | ... | Short German officer |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
46 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 moreFilming Locations:
Chaplin Studios - 1416 N. La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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Originally planned at five reels; outtakes were preserved in Chaplin's private collection. True Boardman, Marion Feducha and Frankie Lee played Chaplin's sons in cut domestic scenes intended for the beginning of the film. Peggy Prevost and Nina Trask portrayed draft board clerks, Alf Reeves a draft board sergeant and Albert Austin a doctor in a cut scene at the draft board office. moreGoofs:
Miscellaneous: In the woods, where Chaplin runs to hide from the pursuing Germans, automobiles are visible traveling on a highway on the horizon. moreFAQ
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Chaplin enters the trenches of WWI in this spirited comedy that never belittles the horrors of war. The rain, the mud, the explosions - all these things are present but Chaplin seems strangely oblivious to them all. He's in France for one thing: to fight the Germans, something he does with unbelievable success.
It almost seems like an extended ego trip for Chaplin - a very funny one, at that - until the final minute when it rises to a new level of poignancy and everything makes sense.
Perhaps it's what all soldiers dream of before the go to war.