The Immigrant (1917 film)
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The Immigrant is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short. The film stars Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and falls in love with a beautiful young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell.
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Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
Written by | Charlie Chaplin (scenario) Vincent Bryan (scenario) Maverick Terrell (scenario) |
Produced by | John Jasper Charlie Chaplin |
Starring | Charlie Chaplin Edna Purviance Eric Campbell |
Cinematography | Roland Totheroh George C. Zalibra |
Edited by | Charlie Chaplin |
Music by | Charlie Chaplin |
Distributed by | Mutual Film Corporation |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
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 realizing that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin's Tramp was penniless because 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 1952. In 1998, The Immigrant was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[1][2]