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The Pilgrim

192346 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
46:55
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

Synopsis

An escaped prisoner steals a minister's clothes and arrives in a town expecting a new parson. With the sheriff close by, he has little choice but to accept the welcome and improvise a sermon. A former cellmate then recognizes him, threatening both his disguise and the trusting household that has offered him a place to stay.

Cast

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

This was Chaplin's last film for First National and his final starring partnership with Edna Purviance. The improvised sermon turns a familiar biblical story into an extended piece of comic mime.

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