I kind of missed the boat on "The Immigrant", although it did raise an occasional chuckle. Reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia, there's quite a bit that went over my head. Perhaps I'm just not used to silent comedies yet.
You can't really take your eyes off the screen for one second in one of these movies.
The set-up is very similar to "The Adventurer", also made in 1917. Charlie is first seen escaping - this time from a foreign country as he arrives at America by boat. Again he falls for a woman played by Edna Purviance, and again he's menaced by a huge man with demonic eyebrows played by Eric Campbell. Chaplin typically tries to do the right thing, but is often foiled and misunderstood.
I'm going to watch more Chaplins. Hopefully I'll come to understand them better, and maybe I'll revisit this one and get more out of it.
You can't really take your eyes off the screen for one second in one of these movies.
The set-up is very similar to "The Adventurer", also made in 1917. Charlie is first seen escaping - this time from a foreign country as he arrives at America by boat. Again he falls for a woman played by Edna Purviance, and again he's menaced by a huge man with demonic eyebrows played by Eric Campbell. Chaplin typically tries to do the right thing, but is often foiled and misunderstood.
I'm going to watch more Chaplins. Hopefully I'll come to understand them better, and maybe I'll revisit this one and get more out of it.