An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Acting
Chaplin's drunk physicality is surgical precision.
Direction
Tight comic timing in just four reels.
Practical Effects
The revolving door gag is mechanical poetry.
Director
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
The Inebriate
Edna Purviance
The Girl
Eric Campbell
The Man with the Gout
Henry Bergman
Masseur
John Rand
Sanitarium Attendant
James T. Kelley
Sanitarium Attendant
Albert Austin
Sanitarium Attendant
Frank J. Coleman
Head of Sanitarium
William Gillespie
Patient (uncredited)
Loyal Underwood
Patient (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chaplin filmed this during his lawsuit against Essanay Studios, rush-releasing it to compete with their unauthorized Chaplin compilations.
The 'cure' premise mocked the real 1910s temperance movement's sanitarium craze—Chaplin essentially made a Prohibition satire before Prohibition even started.
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