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An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Charles Chaplin
- The Inebriate
- (as Charlie Chaplin)
Leota Bryan
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
William Gillespie
- Patient
- (uncredited)
Janet Sully
- Woman
- (uncredited)
Loyal Underwood
- Patient
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
- Writers
- Vincent Bryan(uncredited)
- Charles Chaplin(uncredited)
- Maverick Terrell(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaOuttakes show that the original premise was to have Charles Chaplin play one of the employees at the clinic, but switched the roles with John Rand (who was to play the inebriate) after an uninspired performance. Chaplin himself specialized in drunken characters in the English music hall where he grew up.
- GoofsWhen the Man With the Gout (Eric Campbell) falls into the spa well and struggles underwater, it is a stunt man that is struggling. Eric Campbell is one of the people who pull the stunt man out.
- Quotes
Title Card: [opening title card] The health spring.
- Alternate versionsKino International distributes a set of videos containing all the 12 Mutual short films made by Chaplin in 1916 - 1917. They are presented by David H. Shepard, who copyrighted the versions in 1984, and have a music soundtrack composed and performed by Michael D. Mortilla who copyrighted his score in 1989. The running time of this film is 24 minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Charlie Chaplin Festival (1941)
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A Departure From Drunk Tramp, Now A Drunk Dandy
When Chaplin was in production for his April 1917's "The Cure," American politicians were concerned about the overindulgence of alcohol in the country and were seriously considering enacting a ban on its sales, as some individual states were increasingly doing on their own. Three years after "The Cure" was released, the United States enacted its Prohibition on all alcoholic beverages.
Chaplin, in a number of films, showed his Tramp character drunk. But the times now were calling for sensitivity for the lower and middle-classes on the issue, so he created his character here into an upperclass dandy who rooms at a health spa. Trouble is, he brings a luggage crate full of liquor bottles, which ends up being thrown into an accessible well. Originally, Chaplin had intended to use a fountain for the bottles to be tossed into by the spa's staff, but after 77 takes, Chaplin realized it was easier to fall into a well built on the surface than in an elevated fountain.
Chaplin continued to be a master of using props and situations for belly laughs. The revolving door at the spa's entrance serves as a merry-go-round of human inescapability. And the massage parlor sequence proves to be a cat-and-mouse chase sequence between a hulking powerhouse masseuse and the scrawny Chaplin.
Chaplin, in a number of films, showed his Tramp character drunk. But the times now were calling for sensitivity for the lower and middle-classes on the issue, so he created his character here into an upperclass dandy who rooms at a health spa. Trouble is, he brings a luggage crate full of liquor bottles, which ends up being thrown into an accessible well. Originally, Chaplin had intended to use a fountain for the bottles to be tossed into by the spa's staff, but after 77 takes, Chaplin realized it was easier to fall into a well built on the surface than in an elevated fountain.
Chaplin continued to be a master of using props and situations for belly laughs. The revolving door at the spa's entrance serves as a merry-go-round of human inescapability. And the massage parlor sequence proves to be a cat-and-mouse chase sequence between a hulking powerhouse masseuse and the scrawny Chaplin.
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- Runtime24 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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