The Adventurer (1917)
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Synopsis:
An escaped convict rescues the wife and daughter of his judge from drowning but a jealous rival tips off the prison authorities.
Review:
We never do learn what he was in for but he gets away with it. The film begins with a classic, somewhat freewheeling, chase sequence on the seashore, then transfers to a pier and the young lady's residence where a party is about to begin. Chaplin displays all his nonchalant flair in downing as many cocktails as is humanly possible and still woo the lovely Purviance, but this does not quite hang together as well as some of the other eleven films he made at Mutual. It does, however, show him at the top of his game in staging knockabout comedy and social parody to equally accomplished degrees of polish.
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Synopsis:
An escaped convict rescues the wife and daughter of his judge from drowning but a jealous rival tips off the prison authorities.
Review:
We never do learn what he was in for but he gets away with it. The film begins with a classic, somewhat freewheeling, chase sequence on the seashore, then transfers to a pier and the young lady's residence where a party is about to begin. Chaplin displays all his nonchalant flair in downing as many cocktails as is humanly possible and still woo the lovely Purviance, but this does not quite hang together as well as some of the other eleven films he made at Mutual. It does, however, show him at the top of his game in staging knockabout comedy and social parody to equally accomplished degrees of polish.
Country: US
Technical: bw 20m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Synopsis:
An escaped convict rescues the wife and daughter of his judge from drowning but a jealous rival tips off the prison authorities.
Review:
We never do learn what he was in for but he gets away with it. The film begins with a classic, somewhat freewheeling, chase sequence on the seashore, then transfers to a pier and the young lady's residence where a party is about to begin. Chaplin displays all his nonchalant flair in downing as many cocktails as is humanly possible and still woo the lovely Purviance, but this does not quite hang together as well as some of the other eleven films he made at Mutual. It does, however, show him at the top of his game in staging knockabout comedy and social parody to equally accomplished degrees of polish.