Актеры: Charles Chaplin (as Recruit), Edna Purviance (as French girl), Syd Chaplin (as Sergeant/The Kaiser), Jack Wilson (as German Crown Prince), Henry Bergman (as Fat German sergeant/Field Marshal von Hindenburg), Albert Austin (as U.S. soldier/German soldier/Kaiser's chauffeur), Tom Wilson (as Training camp sergeant), John Rand (as U.S. soldier), J. Parks Jones (as U.S. soldier (as Park Jones)), Loyal Underwood (as Short German officer), True Boardman (as One of Charlie's boys (scenes deleted)), Marion Feducha (as One of Charlie's boys (scenes deleted)), Frankie Lee (as One of Charlie's boys (scenes deleted)), Peggy Prevost (as Draft Board clerk (scenes deleted)), Alf Reeves (as Draft board sergeant (scenes deleted)), Nina Trask (as Draft Board clerk (scenes deleted))
Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.
