).They were posing as the Smiths - a newlywed couple, to an unctuous bellhop, in order to do a Sunday Magazine report to "expose a honeymoon racket.Audiences, critics and the studio (before its release) viewed the film""s subject matter as sensational, controversial, daring, and starkly real.Classic scenes include the starvation scene of two cabin-marooned prospectors boiling and fastidiously eating a stewed shoe, the Tramp""s cabin-mate deliriously imagining his companion as a large chicken, the teetering cabin on the edge of a cliff, and Chaplin""s lonely fantasized New Year""s Eve party (with the dancing dinner rolls routine) when he waits for a girl who never comes.The authentic-looking, powerful film is concerned with the problems of trade unionism, corruption and racketeering.