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The French cottage collapses on the German's

Dressed as a German, Charlie guards captive French girl Edna Purviance

Charlie, pretending to be a German officer, acts harshly when his American colleague is captured (Sydney Chaplin)

Dressed as a German officer, Charlie pretends not to recognise his pal, Syd Chaplin, when he is captured

The film's original intended opening showed Charlie as a family man

Another cut scene from the completed film is when Charlie receives a medical

Actress Ina Claire visits Charlie on the set

Chaplin is in the 'awkward squad'

In a posed publicity photograph Charlie meets his dugout comrades

Charlie settles down in the flooded dugout

Charlie and his comrades go over the top

On a special mission behind enemy lines, Charlie adopts a cunning disguise

French girl Edna Purviance discovers Charlie asleep in what's left of her home

Edna bandages Charlie's hand

French girl Edna and doughboy Charlie hear the Germans enter the house

Intending to use it as a weapon, Charlie accidentally smashes the jug

Despite French girl Edna trying to protect Charlie, The German's hear the jug smashing in the room above

Charlie contemplates army life from his dug-out

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