Shoulder Arms
Turkish title: Şarlo Asker
“Unprecedented in film annals!”
1918 · 36 min
Directed by 
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinCast
Plot
A comedy of World War I trenches.
Sinekatalog’s take
Charlie Chaplin's First World War comedy sends the Tramp into the trenches and behind enemy lines. Short, inventive and warm, it finds clownish laughs in a horrific war and was a huge hit in 1918.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (8,127 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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