The Pawnshop (1916)

Directors

Charlie Chaplin

Cast

Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand, Albert Austin, Wesley Ruggles, Eric Campbell, James T. Kelly, Frank J. Coleman

The story

An assistant in a pawnshop run by Henry Bergman goes about his job in a comedic manner: insulting various eccentric customers and dusting an electric fan while it is running. Quarreling over a ladder, the assistant engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant and is fired. The pawnbroker gives the assistant a second chance because of his "eleven children"—a fiction which the assistant has hastily invented for the occasion.

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