- The Pilgrim
Infobox Film
name = The Pilgrim
caption =
imdb_id = 0014358
director =Charles Chaplin
writer =Charles Chaplin
starring =Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Kitty Bradbury Syd Chaplin Mack Swain
released =February 26 ,1923
country = USA
language =Silent film
English intertitles
runtime = 59 min"The Pilgrim" is a 1923 American
silent film made byCharlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin andEdna Purviance .The film marks the last time Edna Purviance would co-star with Chaplin and the last film he made for First National. Purviance also starred in Chaplin's "
A Woman of Paris " (1923) which had Chaplin in a brief cameo. It was Chaplin's second-shortest feature, constructed more like a two-reeler from his earlier career. It is also noted as the first film forCharles Riesner , who became ascreenwriter in his later years.In 1959, Chaplin included "The Pilgrim" as one of three films comprising "
The Chaplin Revue ". Slightly re-edited and fully re-scored, the film contained a song, "I'm Bound For Texas", words and music written by Chaplin, sung byMatt Monro e.ynopsis
Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals clothes to get rid of this prison uniform. He ends up in a small town mistaken for a
parson .Trivia
*A newspaper being held by a sheriff sitting next to Chaplin on the train gives Chaplin's character's name as Lefty Lombard. Dated May 17, 1922, the newspaper's headline reads in full:: "Lefty Lombard" alias "Slippery Elm" leaps into drain pipe in dining hall of prison and escapes through sewer, $1,000 reward offered, Guards stand petrified with astonishment as prisoner makes leap — believed to be part of wholesale escape plan.
Cast
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Charles Chaplin - The Pilgrim
*Edna Purviance - Miss Brown
*Kitty Bradbury - Mrs. Brown, Edna's Mother
*Syd Chaplin - Eloper/Train Conductor/Little Boy's Father
*Mack Swain - Large Deacon
*Mai Wells - Little Boy's Mother
*Dean Riesner - Little Boy
*Loyal Underwood - Small Deacon
*Charles Reisner - Howard Huntington, Crook
* Tom Murray - Sheriff Bryan
*Henry Bergman - Sheriff on Train/Man In Railroad StationExternal links
*imdb title|id=0014358|title=The Pilgrim
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