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The Tramp

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NR,20min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1999
Director:
Charles Chaplin
Distributor:
Passport Video
Starring:
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Fred Goodwins  ...more
Synopsis: The Tramp, Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay, is generally considered his first masterpiece. It is the first of his films that blended pathos with comedy and contains subtle pantomime along with the knockabout slapstick. Charlie is truly a tramp in this film, wandering down a dusty country road carrying his bindle. He is knocked down by near misses from two passing autos and pulls a whisk broom from his pocket and dusts himself off. He sits by a tree to eat his lunch, but it is stolen by a ... Full Synopsis
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, AMG Review
One of Chaplin's most famous comedies for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, and one which helped to sharply define the persona of the Tramp character, The Tramp finds Chaplin directing himself as a hobo, adrift on the highway of life, when fate takes hand in his affairs. He comes across a young woman (Edna Purviance, one of Chaplin's most frequent leading ladies in his early comedies) who is ... Full Review
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Charles Chaplin
A Tramp
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