- Year :
- 1916
- Cast :
- Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, James T. Kelly, Leo White, John Rand, Fred Goodwins, Billy Armstrong, Bud Jamison
- Production :
- Essanay
- Description :
- Police uses comedy to make pointed—if glancing—social statements which over the years became central to Chaplin’s work. The film is arguably the most mature in the series and anticipates such later films as Modern Times (1936). The Tramp, released from prison, is “once again in the cruel, cruel world” where he meets a former cell-mate and sets about to rob the home occupied by a young woman. Police was altered by Essanay after Chaplin had edited the film, removing an extended doss-house sequence that appeared two years later in Triple Trouble.
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