Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"

Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"

Charlie Chaplin's 61st Film Released June 17 1917. The Immigrant (also called Broke) starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. The movie was written and directed by Chaplin. According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin decided the reason the Tramp was penniless was that he had just arrived on a boat from Europe, and used this notion as the basis for the first half. Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence (in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie) that she became physically ill. The scene in which Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as evidence of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the United States in the 1950s. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008133/ Charlie Chaplin In The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_02_MakingALiving http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_07_KidsAutoRaceAtVenice http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_09_MabelsStrangePredicament http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_02_28_BetweenShowers http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_02_FilmJohnny http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_16_HisFavoritePasttime http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_03_26_CruelCruelLove http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_04_TheLandladysPet http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1914_04_20_TwentyMinutesofLo

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