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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 911

Shanghaied

191530 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 27:19
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

Synopsis

Charlie helps recruit a ship's crew by force, only to be knocked unconscious and taken aboard himself. The vessel is intended to be destroyed for insurance money, and the woman he loves has secretly joined the voyage. His difficulties with shipboard work and rough weather become a more urgent struggle when the plan to sink the ship begins.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

Wesley Ruggles

Bud Jamison

Billy Armstrong

Paddy McGuire

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

Chaplin makes the moving deck and ship's galley into shifting comic spaces. The insurance plot supplies a danger that connects those mechanical routines with the stowaway romance.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

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Charles Chaplin — Strauss-Peyton Studio, 1921; published in Photoplay no. 3 (1922); National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Edna Purviance — Unknown photographer, 1923; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 8372 / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Wesley Ruggles — Unknown photographer; Exhibitors Herald (Jul. - Sep. 1921) on the Internet Archive · Public domain
Bud Jamison — Hal Roach; Youtube · Public domain
Billy Armstrong — Charlie Chaplin; www.imdb.com · Public domain

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