Easy Street (film) Street as his beat. Upon entering the street he finds a bully roughing up the locals and pilfering their money. The Little Tramp gets on the wrong side of the bully and following a chase the two eventually come to blows culminating in the Little Tramp inventively using a gas lamp to render the bully unconscious. The bully is taken away by the police but manages to escape from the station and returns to Easy Street. After a long chase the Little Tramp manages to knock the bully unconscious by dropping a heavy stove on his head from an upstairs
The Tramp when he eventually does, he fights off some jailbreakers attempting to escape, thus saving the life of the warden. Because of this, the warden offers to let him go, but the Tramp would rather stay in jail because it is better than the outside world. Chaplin's social commentary, while critical of the faults and excesses created by industrialization, also shows support for and belief in the “American Dream." In "Modern Times", Chaplin creates a “portrayal consistent with popular leftist stereotypes of wealthy union leaders and oppressed workers in the 1930s.” While the Tramp and his fellow workers sweat on the