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The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.

When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.

Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.

Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.

An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.

A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.

A propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort.

Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?

A reward of $500 is offered for the capture of Broncho Billy, a desperate outlaw. One day, while hiding near the home of a rancher, Broncho sees a little girl burying her broken doll. Before she completes the ceremony, her mother comes out and takes her into the house. That evening after she has been put to bed, the little girl steals out to finish burying her doll. She falls over a ledge, and Broncho, who is sleeping nearby, is awakened. He picks her up unconscious. Upon taking her home the mother offers him a cot to sleep on. While Broncho sleeps the rancher comes home and recognizes him. He is intent upon getting the $500 reward, but his wife protects the rescuer of her child and Broncho is allowed to escape.

Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.

Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.

The story opens in the Klondike. Two young men from the East are in love with Edna Wallace. She accepts Brandon. A few years go by and we see McCormack, the friend and rejected suitor, attempting to rescue Brandon from drink and ruin. They quarrel and McCormack is wounded in a pistol fight. Brandon escapes to New York with his child. His wife follows. The scene then shifts to the Metropolis. McCormack is now a newspaper editor. One morning he confronts Brandon robbing his apartment. The latter dies of heart failure from shock. He leaves behind a letter which enables McCormack to locate the missing son. In the role of a "Cub" reporter he covers a big fire and rescues his mother from the burning building. The reunion in the hospital later, with McCormack present, is as touching as it is beautiful.

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

Robert, King of Sicily, a proud and haughty monarch, scoffs at the church and proudly declares there is no power that can remove him from the throne. One evening, while at vespers in the church, Robert falls asleep. Afraid to awaken him the attendants steal away at the end of the service, Robert sleeps soundly far into the night, and awakens to find only a few candles flickering on the massive altar. Gazing with astonishment around him, Robert suddenly discovers that he is clothed in the rags of a beggar. Rage gaining possession of him, he escapes from the church and rushes to the palace throne room. Here he finds an angelic king seated upon the throne, wearing his robes, his crown and signet ring. Wild with fury Robert denounces the angel as an impostor, and is thrown into a dismal dungeon. Later he is visited by the angel, who again asks if he is still the king. Proudly Robert answers in the affirmative, and is further punished by being transformed into the court jester. The angel slowly fades from sight, and Robert finds himself with nothing but an ape for counsel. In the great banquet hall Robert is ridiculed by the pages when found eating scraps of food from the plates after the guests have gone. Still his pride dominates and his haughty answer, "I am, I am the King," saddens the angel, who realizes the task is not yet finished. As the Holy Week approaches the ambassadors from Pope Urban summon the Angel king to Rome. At last Robert sees a way to dethrone the impostor, for is not the pope his own brother? Surely he will right the great wrong that has been done. So they depart o'er land and sea, into the lovely land of Italy. Upon arriving in Rome the Pope receives them with great pomp on St. Peter's Square, but Robert's hopes are dashed to earth when, after an impassioned appeal to his own brother, he finds the Pope knows him not, and jests with the angel, saying, "It is strange sport to keep a madman at court." Seizing the furious Robert the guards imprison him in a cell. Easter Sunday gleams upon the sky and Robert, rising from his pallet, eagerly watches the people as they enter the church for early mass. Suddenly a celestial gleam of light falls upon his upturned face and, feeling within a power unfelt before, he kneels humbly, and for the first time lifts his voice in prayer. The Holy Week ending, the Angel King returns once more to Sicily. Now it is that Robert seems to feel the angelic presence of the impostor king, and humbles himself for the first time. Later, in the great throne room, Robert, still in his jester garb, gazes from the open casement and is aroused from his reverie by the sound of the vesper bells and the chanting of the monks nearby. Watching him closely, the Angel King dismisses the court, and appearing before Robert, once more asks, "Art thou the king?" For a moment Robert hesitates, then crosses his hands meekly upon his breast and makes answer, "Thou knowest best." At this acknowledgment of his lowliness the angel reveals himself to the king and slowly fades from view with a last blessing. Discovering that he is once more clothed in his regal robes. King Robert impulsively goes alone to the church and there, kneeling before the holy altar, he silently prays, while a shaft of heavenly light breaks over the lofty crucifix and falls upon his humbled head.

Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman discovers Billy being held prisoner and rides for help. The townsmen gallop toward Billy's rescue.

William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.

A cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.