Work
Charlie works for a painter hired to wallpaper a house. The owner can't get breakfast. The kitchen gas stove explodes. The wife's secret lover arrives. Looks like a rough day for all at the corner of Easy Street and Hardluck Ave.
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"Am a big fan of Charlie Chaplin, have been for over a decade now. Many films and shorts of his are very good to masterpiece, and like many others consider him a comedy genius and one of film's most important and influential directors. From his Essanay period after leaving Keystone, 'Work' is not one of his very best or even among the best of this particular period. It shows a noticeable step up in quality though from his Keystone period, where he was still evolving and in the infancy of his long career, from 1914, The Essanay period is something of Chaplin's adolescence p..."
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This film was one of several Chaplin comedies scheduled to be shown at the New-York Historical Society in September of 2001. In the wake of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, however, this film and one other, Dough and Dynamite, were pulled from the program, because each one ends with Charlie emerging from the rubble of a destroyed building.
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Charlie works for a painter hired to wallpaper a house. The owner can't get breakfast. The kitchen gas stove explodes. The wife's secret lover arrives. Looks like a rough day for all at the corner of Easy Street and Hardluck Ave.