Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Lee Eisenberg This time, Charlie Chaplin plays a drunk who has to spend some time in a health spa. Sure enough, he creates chaos everywhere he goes! "The Cure" was also one of Edna Purviance's early roles. The two of them have a couple of scenes together. But above all, this is an excuse for Chaplin to strut his stuff, and boy does he! It must have been weird for Chaplin, going as he did from being a poor boy in England to being an international superstar. Nonetheless, he gave us some of the greatest comedies of all time. That makes it all the more disgraceful that the US government - mired in McCarthyism - wouldn't let him reenter the country in 1952, forcing him to spend the rest of his life in exile. Fortunately, Chaplin got the last laugh: he won an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1972, and he remains one of the most beloved entertainers ever.

Petri Pelkonen The Cure from 1917 is a Charles Chaplin film in which he doesn't play The Tramp character.He plays an alcoholic who enters a health spa with a big suitcase full of alcohol.There he meets a beautiful girl (Edna Purviance), who could help him become sober.At some point, all of the spa's inhabitants are loaded after the liquor ends up at the health waters.I have never been drunk in my entire life, and intend never to be, but it can be funny to watch comedians portraying drunkards on films.And Chaplin sure plays a funny drunk.And the absence of The Little Tramp isn't a problem, he was in that costume in many other movies.But how funny the movie is, that's the main issue here.And this movie is pretty funny.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) Charlie Chaplin's 24-minute short "The Cure", written directed and produced by the master himself as always, takes him playing an alcoholic to a health spa this time. It has his usual companions Eric Campbell, very bearded and wearing a cylinder, and Edna Purviance. Early on, we get some mindless revolving door fun, which gets a bit repetitive quickly and afterward inside the spa, as always all kinds of hilarious complications ensue, especially for Campbell's character, when Chaplin displays his usual devastating routine. He turns away Campbell's chair the the moment he wants to sit on it, so the colossus lands on his his giant butt. He jokingly kicks Campbell's plastered leg and many more. I don't think it's as funny as Chaplin's best, but if you're a fan of his, you'll probably like it. Also, besides Chaplin's comedic efforts, it includes a nice message for audiences almost 100 years ago about how devastating alcohol can be to the extent that it can possibly destroy your life and doesn't make you exactly attractive to women (Purviance here) either.

Joseph P. Ulibas The Cure (1917) was another one of Charlie Chaplin's shorts that featured a few members of his troupe. Charlie stars as a drunk who goes to a health spa. His day their is filled with all kind of crazy situations. The funniest one involves a burly masseuse who manhandles his clients. After witnessing the masseuse's style of massage, Charlie is a little more than reluctant to participate and the burly dude chases him all over the room very eager to give our hero a "treatment". Edna Purviance co-stars as well.An interesting look at Chaplin as he assumes more control over his films. A few more of these shorts would lead him to direct, produce, write and star in his first feature length film.Highly recommended