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His New Profession (1914)
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31 August 1914 (USA)
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Charlie meets a couple and agrees to care for the man's crippled uncle. After the couple breaks up the...
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Entertaining enough, but doesn't stand out from the rest.
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(Complete credited cast) | Charles Chaplin | ... | Charlie |
 | Jess Dandy | ... | Invalid Uncle |
| Charley Chase | ... | Nephew |
| Cecile Arnold | ... | Girl with Eggs |
| Harry McCoy | ... | Policeman |
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 | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | ... | Bartender smoking cigar |
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In His New Profession, Chaplin again reverts into drunken slapstick, what I think is his weakest effect, although I am sure it was very popular back in 1914. A man in a park is clearly very annoyed at having to care for his uncle, who is confined to a wheelchair, so he asks the Tramp to "push him around for a bit," while he goes off chasing some girl. He does, but soon passes a bar and wants to go inside and get a drink. When the uncle won't give him a dime on account, he steals money from a sleeping homeless man's tin cup, then places his cardboard sign on the uncle and heads for the bar, where Fatty Arbuckle is almost completely unnoticed as the bartender.
There are several moderately effective gags, but it seems that the film is trying to present more story than it can carry. There is a lot going on in the story, but very little of it is clear, and as is so common in these early films, it soon resorts to a lot of pushing and kicking. You can't really expect a whole lot more than that from these early comedies, but as it is, there is not much to make this one stand out from the rest of Chaplin's early work.
Even Chaplin himself begins and ends the film with a yawn!!!