- The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
- Charlie is an escaped convict, eluding his pursuers along the rocky sea coast. He dodges back and forth, and is driven into the sea, where he swims alongside a boat in which a bather is struggling to shed his sweater. Charlie steals his bathing suit and emerges, garbed as a bather, just as Edna's mamma is struggling in the water near the pier. "Big Eric," boastful of his strength, has been debating the advisability of attempting mother's rescue when Edna jumps in. Charlie saves them both and Eric pushes the rescuer back into the water. Charlie is rescued and taken to Edna's home, where he dons an oversized evening suit and takes part in social events. It develops that Edna's dad is the judge who sentenced Charlie, but he bluffs his way through this obstacle. Eric finds a newspaper announcing Charlie's escape and carrying his picture. Charlie fools the rest of the family by making whiskers on the picture but Eric calls the prison warden and Charlie is pursued from one part of the house to the other until he lands in the grasp of a big guard. Edna comes onto the scene as the guard grips Charlie's shoulder. The prisoner introduces the guard to the fair miss, and as his captor reaches to take the girl's hand, Charlie slips away.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Charlie escapes from prison. After rescuing a girl and her mother from drowning, Charlie is invited to their home where a big party is held and he is treated like a hero. However, as a result Charlie's photo is printed in the newspapers and the prison guards come after him.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- Charlie has escaped from Sing-Sing. He burrows up through sand on the beach and is chased by several guards. Nearby Edna's mother is drowning and her 'strong man' beau is afraid to rescue her. Charlie rescues Edna, then (unwillingly) her mother, and is then nearly drowned by her suitor. Found by the family chauffeur, Charlie is brought to Edna's house to recover. There he romps through drinks, encounters with Edna and her friend, and the law.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- An escaped convict (Chaplin) is being pursued by the police in a seaside setting. In a series of chases, he keeps narrowly eluding capture. Finally, he escapes by swimming out into the ocean. He comes across a boat, where he steals a bathing suit.
Meanwhile, on the pier, a girl is being wooed by a suitor. Just then, her mother screams for help; she is drowning. The suitor won't go after her, so the girl jumps in herself, and is soon in trouble. The suitor is left standing on the pier with another man. The railing breaks, and they both fall into the ocean. The convict rescues all of them. He pretends that he is a rich man who has just left his yacht. The girl invites him to her house.
The next morning, he awakens in bed in striped pajamas. He is alarmed, but the butler enters the room and gives him a suit to wear for the swank party they are holding. He gets into a tit-for-tat with the suitor, who doesn't like the attention he is giving his girl. The convict meets the girl's father, who is a judge. He thinks he has seen the convict before, but he just can't place him. Meanwhile, the suitor spots the convict's picture in the newspaper. While he is telling the judge, the convict spots the picture and draws in a beard to make him unrecognizable. Undeterred, the suitor calls the police.
In the kitchen, the parlor maid is entertaining her boyfriend with food from the party. He is a guard at the jail. When the convict and the girl enter the kitchen, he hides. The convict opens the cabinet where the guard is hiding, realizes who it is, and runs out of the room, only to be confronted by the police who have arrived on the scene.
The convict is involved in a series of chases and narrow escapes. He is finally caught, but manages one last maneuver, and escapes.
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