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Emiam
6/10
That link from maxwelldeux (mod-edit: dead link below removed) is in really lousy quality and barely watchable. Better than nothing...
This film went better and better the closer to the end!
That link from maxwelldeux (mod-edit: dead link below removed) is in really lousy quality and barely watchable. Better than nothing...
This film went better and better the closer to the end!
Windill
A less interesting one, but for the furious little kid.
One funny thing, though: it was a silent movie, but it came along with a song composed by Chaplin himself: 'Bound for Texas'.
One funny thing, though: it was a silent movie, but it came along with a song composed by Chaplin himself: 'Bound for Texas'.
Siskoid
In The Pilgrim, Chaplin is the most honest escaped convict you're ever likely to meet, disguised as a priest to trick the authorities, until the people from a small Texas town take him for the real thing and he gets in over his head. A strong comic premise and pretty consistent through the film's 47 minutes (comedies of the silent era often veered wildly from set piece to piece, Chaplin's included), and one which may inform the character's reformation. Either he was never made for a life of crime, or playing a parson turns him into a good person. A better film might have made more of that, but there's still a lot to enjoy, including a proper villain, a thief from Charlie's past who wants to hurt the people our hero has come to love. As with most longer Chaplin films, there's an obligatory cooking (or baking) gag, though not shoes, this time. There's a bit of western action and Chaplin (Chaplain?) doing a sermon in pantomime, and a good-hearted sheriff to enable a sort of happy ending. And I like the use of an actual song. The face-slapping kid, though... annoying.
