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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 796

The Tramp

191526 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 26:18
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

Synopsis

A wandering man helps a farmer's daughter escape thieves and is invited to work on the farm. His awkward attempts at useful labor create trouble, but his attachment to the household grows. Protecting it from a robbery gives him a chance to prove his loyalty, even as he misunderstands what place he might occupy in the young woman's future.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Historical context

This Essanay production gives Chaplin's recurring wanderer a sustained emotional disappointment alongside the physical comedy. The road is both the place from which he arrives and the alternative that remains when domestic belonging proves uncertain.

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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)

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