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* BattleTrophy: The Bully wears the helmet of the last policeman who dared try to walk a beat on Easy Street.
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In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order on the titular Easy Street, and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman. Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, is homeless and hungry so he steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.

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In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order on the titular Easy Street, and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman. Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, is homeless and hungry so he steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace. In particular, he has to use his wits to defeat one particular, hulking bully who seems determined to pound Charlie into jelly.

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* DamselInDistress: Chaplin rescues one from The Bully, and then from a gang of thugs.



* DistressedDamsel: Chaplin rescues one from The Bully, and then from a gang of thugs.

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* AnvilOnHead: The Bully isn't stopped till The Tramp drops a metal stove on top of him from a second storey window.
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* TheCoatsAreOff: After a PunchPunchPunchUhOh moment, The Bully takes his coat off as he prepares to pummel The Tramp.

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* PunchPunchUhOh: The Tramp whacks The Bully over head several times with his nightstick while The Bully's back is turned. The Bully doesn't even notice till he turns round.

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* PunchPunchUhOh: PunchPunchPunchUhOh: The Tramp whacks The Bully over head several times with his nightstick while The Bully's back is turned. The Bully doesn't even notice till he turns round.


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* SwallowTheKey: When The Bully has the The Tramp trapped in his apartment, he locks the door and swallows the key so The Tramp can't escape.
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* PunchPunchUhOh: The Tramp whacks The Bully over head several times with his nightstick while The Bully's back is turned. The Bully doesn't even notice till he turns round.
* RushedInvertedReading: While attending the mission service, The Tramp holds his hymnal upside down (and sideways at one point).
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* HappyEnding: An atypically cheerful one for Chaplin--he brings peace and order to Easy Street, and he gets the girl.
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* TheBrute: The Bully

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* TheBrute: The BullyBully. Even in hard-bitten Easy Street, the other locals shy away from him.
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* BigBallOfViolence: In the middle of the street, that even policemen can't break up.

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In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman. Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, is homeless and hungry so he steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.

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In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order on the titular Easy Street, and have resorted to hiring anyone off the street who wants to be a policeman. Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, is homeless and hungry so he steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace.


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* CrapsackWorld: Easy Street, where The Bully terrorizes everyone, there's a constant brawl in the streets, the police are scared to intervene, and poor women have to resort to stealing food.


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* DefeatMeansFriendship: In the end, even The Bully has become an upstanding citizen, escorting his wife to church and nodding respectfully to Charlie.


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* DrugsAreGood / IntoxicationEnsues: Charlie accidentally sits on a cocaine syringe. This gives him the jolt of energy required to beat up the gang of thugs and rescue Edna Purviance.
* HandyCuffs: The cops at the station cuff The Bully with his hands in front. Of course, since he simply rips the cuffs apart after waking up, it might not make much of a difference.
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''Easy Street'' is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring CharlieChaplin.

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''Easy Street'' is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring CharlieChaplin.
Creator/CharlieChaplin.
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* DistressedDamsel: Chaplin rescues one from The Bully, and then from a gang of thugs.

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