The Pawnshop / Charlie Chaplin.

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Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

Charles Chaplin : Pawnshop assistant
Henry Bergman : Pawnbroker
Edna Purviance : His daughter
John Rand : Pawnshop assistant
Albert Austin : Client with clock
Wesley Ruggles : Client with ring
Eric Campbell : Burglar

Charlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916.

The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time.

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