Chaplin made a guest appearance in this one-reel G.M. "Bronco Billy" Anderson drama, as the tramp in the dance hall sequence. That the main title states that Anderson was "slightly assisted by Charles Chaplin" suggests that Chaplin may have had a hand in the construction and direction of this film as well. The plot of the drama bears a close resemblance to the story used in Chaplin's POLICE.In Chaplin's Essanay Comedies, made in 1915, cinema's greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around his performance style rather than forcing himself, as before, into Mack Sennett's frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom
Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian of "His New Job" to the brilliant pantomimist of "A Night Out," "The Champion," "The Tramp" and "Shanghaied" to the profound satirist of "Police."
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