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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 807

The Cure

191731 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 25:25
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

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Synopsis

A guest arrives at a health resort carrying enough alcohol to undermine any proposed treatment. His attempts to negotiate revolving doors, therapeutic routines and a formidable masseur create disturbances throughout the hotel. When his liquor is emptied into the supposedly restorative spring, the establishment's promise of sober, healthy living takes an unexpected turn.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

Eric Campbell

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Historical context

The comedy revolves around the contradiction between the resort's health regimen and its guest's habits. Chaplin's character here is an affluent patient, allowing the film to direct its disruptions toward an institution intended to regulate the body.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

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Charles Chaplin — Strauss-Peyton Studio, 1921; published in Photoplay no. 3 (1922); National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Edna Purviance — Unknown photographer, 1923; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 8372 / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Eric Campbell — Unknown photographer, by 1917; The Moving Picture World (1918), p. 53; Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)

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