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 dressing up for the short film "Mabel's Strange Predicament" starring Mabel Normand and Chaplin. In a 1933 interview, Chaplin explained how he came up with the look of the Tramp: That was actually the first film featuring the Tramp but a different film, shot later but with the same character, happened to be released two days earlier. The Tramp debuted to the public in the Keystone comedy "Kid Auto Races at Venice" (released on February 7, 1914; "Mabel's Strange Predicament", shot earlier, was released on February 9, 1914). Chaplin, with his Little Tramp character, quickly became the most popular star