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Easy Street (1917)

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Overview

When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is assigned to rough-and-tumble Easy Street. Unable to trick or beat Eric the Tough, he puts Eric's head in a gas pipe and anesthetizes him. A hero, he now helps many poor people living on Easy Street. Eric escapes jail, Edna is kidnapped, but Charlie (recharged after sitting on a doper's needle) conquers all. Easy Street is transformed as is Eric.

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Principal Cast

Charles Chaplin
as The Tramp
Edna Purviance
as The Mission Worker
Eric Campbell
as The Bully
James T. Kelly
as The Mission Priest
Albert Austin
as Minister / Policeman (uncredited)
Lloyd Bacon
as Drug Addict (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
as Anarchist (uncredited)
Frank J. Coleman
as Policeman (uncredited)
William Gillespie
as Heroin Addict (uncredited)
Charlotte Mineau
as Big Erics Wife (uncredited)
John Rand
as Mission Tramp / Policeman (uncredited)
Janet Sully
as Mother in Mission (uncredited)
Loyal Underwood
as Small Father / Policeman (uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim Jr.
as Baby (uncredited)
Leo White
as Policeman (uncredited)
Tom Wood
as Chief of Police (uncredited)