"Police" is a Charlie Chaplin film from 1916, so this one has its 100th anniversary this year. As a consequence, this is obviously a black-and-white silent film. Chaplin is writer, director and lead actor as so many other times and the cast includes his regular love interest Edna Purviance and some more actors who regularly appear in his works. The title already indicates that there is a certain crime story in here and police plays a role. Of course, Chaplin is not a police man, but he is the clumsy convict who goes against the police. He is not the bad guy though, just the one being in the wrong company, a role that suits Chaplin the best to display his innocent goofy humor. According to IMDb, there are quite a few different versions of this one that range between 17 and 38 minutes runtime. The one I watched was 24 minutes long. But it was too long already. There is a decent moment here and there, but like with many many other Chaplin films, it lacks subtitles considerably, to an extent when it's very difficult to understand the basic story at all. I do not recommend the watch. Thumbs down and I'm shocked this is among Chaplin's most famous.
Review of Police
