Charlie Chaplin - " The Cure " 1917 - 1080P High Definition - Short Silent Classic Film
Channel: Charlie Chaplin Shorts
Date: 2020-12-16

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Directed by               Charlie Chaplin
Produced by             Lone Star Corporation
Scenario by               Charlie Chaplin          
Starring                     Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance
Cinematography       Roland H. Totheroh and W.C. Foster
Distributed by           Mutual Film Corporation
Release date               April 16, 1917
Running time             24 min.
Country                      United States
Language                    Silent film, English intertitles

Chaplin plays a drunkard who is attending a hydropathic hotel, presumably to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. He gets trapped in a spinning revolving door then traps the foot of a large man with a bandaged foot, suffering from gout. He encounters a beautiful young woman and sits between her and a man who keeps offering him the spa water (which he keeps pouring away). The girl encourages him to stop drinking. He meets the big man again who tries to get the hotel manager to throw him out. Instead he gets taken for a Turkish massage.

When the hotel owner learns employees are getting drunk from Charlie's liquor, he orders one man to throw the liquor out the window. The drunk employee hurls the bottles through the window, straight into the spa's health waters. Meanwhile Charlie is not happy to be massaged by the large man in the bath house and tries to dodge this.

Outside, the well is contaminated with alcohol, sending the spa's inhabitants into a dancing stupor. Chaplin, encouraged by his new love to get sober, drinks from the spurious spa, gets drunk and offends her. She leaves him in anger and walks away. Charlie walks back to the door unsteadily, when he bumps into the large man, tripping him off his wheel chair and landing him into the alcoholic well.

The next morning there are plenty of hangovers, but Chaplin turns sober, walks out and finds the lady. Realizing what had happened, she forgives him. They walk ahead, just then he accidentally steps into the liquor-laden well.
All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1925 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1925 will enter the public domain in 2021, films from 1926 in 2022, and so on.