Charlie Chaplin: The Cure

The Cure is a 1917 film written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... A drunkard (Charlie Chaplin) arrives at a hydropathic hotel in hopes of curing his addiction, after struggling with a revolving door, he checks into a room with his huge booze trunk and refuses treatment. Meanwhile, a large man (Eric Campbell) with an injured foot is harassing a girl (Edna Purivance); the drunkard intrudes between the two, at first he thinks the man is hitting on him, but when the drunkard makes him fall on the floor - the large gentleman asks the manager to throw him out. The girl, however, sides with the drunkard, who is then taken to a massage. The manager catches his employees drinking the drunkard's alcohol and orders them to throw it away, so employees empty the bottles into the healing spring waters. The drunkard's massage turns into a wrestling match, while the guests of the hydropathic hotel begin to feel the effects of contaminated water: the hotel turns into a ballroom, all the guests are drunk, some of them harass the young lady, but she is saved by the drunkard. The girl tries to convince him to stop drinking by offering him contaminated water, then infuriated by his even more drunken behavior - she dumps him. The following day, all the guests are suffering a hangover, the drunkard is finally sober so he finds the girl and asks her forgiveness; the two make up, just after he promises to never drink again - he stumbles and ends up in the spring.