Police is Charlie Chaplin's 14th film with Essanay Studios and was released in 1916. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. Charlie plays an ex-convict who finds life on the outside not to his liking and leads him to breaking into a home with another thief (Wesley Ruggles). Edna Purviance plays the girl living in the home who tries to change him.
Starring: Charles Chaplin as Charlie, Convict 999 Edna Purviance as Daughter of the House Wesley Ruggles as Jailbird and Thief James T. Kelley as Drunk with Pockets Picked/Second Flophouse Customer Leo White as Fruitseller/Flop House Manager/Policeman John Rand as Fruitseller/Flop House Manager/Policeman Fred Goodwins as Honest Preacher/Policeman with Monocle Billy Armstrong as Crooked Preacher/Second Cop Snub Pollard as Crooked Preacher/Second Cop Bud Jamison as Third Flophouse Customer Paddy McGuire as Fifth Flophouse Customer George Cleethorpe as Policeman at Station with Mustache