The Bond

The Bond

1918
Comedy
Short Film
10m
Half-reel made for the Liberty Loan Committee and distributed free throughout the country. The actors show that bonds of friendship, love and marriage are inspiring but the most important bonds of all are Liberty Bonds, the blockbuster which will knock out the Kaiser. (imdb)
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The Bond

1918
Comedy
Short Film
10m
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Rated 23 Feb 2007
40
10th
This 1918 Chaplin short about "bonds" is a remarkably boring affair. At first it investigates "bonds" such as the bonds of love and friendship, then it suddenly decides to become a WWI propaganda flick and stresses the importance of "Liberty Bonds". The only funny part is the end, where Chaplin knocks out Kaiser Wilhelm with a big club that says "Liberty Bonds" on it, and then makes a very weird facial expression. How could people think those big mustaches look good?
Rated 01 Mar 2007
40
19th
Interesting propaganda reel.
Rated 25 Feb 2009
55
41st
Not the best work, but still is Chaplin.
Rated 26 Mar 2009
40
11th
Humorless WWI propaganda.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
40
8th
The only real interest here is the style, with its mostly black backgrounds, largely painted in scenery, and the characters all wearing (mostly) white. It picked up when it got to the actual advertisement for Liberty Bonds, and Charlie's hammering of Wilhelm was fun, but overall, a pretty lackluster affair.
Rated 30 Mar 2014
18
13th
Weirdly stylized snoozer of an allegorical Liberty Bonds ad. Would have been better with more Kaiser Wilhelm and less of everything else.
Rated 15 Aug 2021
40
11th
A World War I-era propaganda film essentially, advertising Liberty bonds in a very unsubtle, slightly grating manner. Chaplin presenting different categories of bonds felt like a YouTube video 87 years before YouTube - and, like YouTube videos nowadays, it turned out to be a goddamn ad. Charles motherfuckin' Chaplin. Always ahead of his time.

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