SUNNYSIDE (1919) ** Charlie Chaplin goes to the farm. To the farm hotel, it can never be quite so easy with Mr. Chaplin, can it? Frivolity, dignified indignities, and funny walks naturally ensue, the rural church service was probably never so thunderous, and the inevitable romance turns things down the home stretch. The scene of a goat and organ trying to drown out Charlie's waltzy score is even more welcome than resourceful, and may have set off a better idea somewhere in Harpo Marx' head. It all moves along as you suspect it might, with a little help from the animals and the silliest looking lounge lizards I've ever seen. But how, pray tell, will that clever Mr. Chaplin turn any of this into the requisite happy ending?
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