sábado, 15 de marzo de 2014

"Shoulder arms" (film about the First World War)

As we have seen recently the WWI, I'm going to speak about a film based in this period, Shoulder Arms (Armas al hombro), of the actor and humorist Charles Chaplin.
*Charles Chaplin: Director, producer, screenwriter and composer.
*Roland Totheroh: Director of photography.
*Some actors of the film:
-Charles Chaplin: Recruit.
-Edna Purviance: Young French.
-Sidney Chaplin (Charles' brother): German sargeant and the Kaiser.
-Henry Bergman: German sargeant and camp marshal.
*Synopsis:
It speaks about the life of a recruit that fight at the WWI for the American ranks, the soldier 13. When he goes to the front, he thinks that he will die because his number is the 13, he has broken a mirror and he didn't get right on the heads or tails. But he arrest a group of German soldiers. Later, he volunteers himself for a dangerous mission, in which he helps to a french women, he arrest more German soldiers (include the Kaiser) and became a war hero. But all of this was a dream that ends when two soldiers wake him up on the practice camp.
Here I leave the complete film: