The Cure (1917 film)

The Cure
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Directed by	Charles Chaplin Edward Brewer (technical director)
Produced by	Henry P. Caulfield
Written by	Charles Chaplin (scenario) Vincent Bryan (scenario) Maverick Terrell (scenario)
Starring	Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Eric Campbell
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh George C. Zalibra
Editing by	Charles Chaplin
Distributed by	Mutual Film Corporation
Release date(s)	April 16, 1917 (1917-04-16)
Running time	31 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

Synopsis

Chaplin plays a drunkard who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man suffering from gout, evades him and encounters a beautiful young woman who encourages him to stop drinking. However, when the hotel owner learns his employees are getting drunk off Charlie's liquor, he calls an employee and orders him to have the liquor thrown out the window.

The drunk employee hurls the bottles through the window, straight into the spa's health waters. The well becomes spurious 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.

Cast

• Charlie Chaplin as The Inebriate
• Edna Purviance as The Girl
• Eric Campbell as The Man with the Gout
• Henry Bergman as Masseur
• John Rand as Sanitarium Attendant
• James T. Kelley as Sanitarium Attendant
• Albert Austin as Sanitarium Attendant
• Frank J. Coleman as Head of Sanitarium

External links

• The short film The Cure is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
• The Cure at the Internet Movie Database