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The Champion
Overview
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
Director and cast
- Charlie Chaplin Director
- Charlie Chaplin as Challenger
- Edna Purviance as Trainer's Daughter
- Ernest Van Pelt as Spike Dugan
- Lloyd Bacon as Second Sparring Partner / Exerciser in Gym / Referee
- Leo White as Crooked gambler
- Carl Stockdale as Sparring Partner
- Billy Armstrong as Sparring Partner
- Paddy McGuire as Sparring Partner
- Bud Jamison as Bob Uppercut, Champion
- Ben Turpin as Ringside vendor
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