Easy Street

Easy Street
  • Release date: 3 Feb 1917
  • Release year: 1917
  • Runtime: 24 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: beaten up policeman, law and order, damsel in distress, kidnapped woman, the little tramp character, church, missionaries, organist, preacher, holding a baby
Plot:
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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