Edna Purviance and Charles     Chaplin.     Photo: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Charles Chaplin [Darn Hosiery], Edna Purviance [Carmen], Jack Henderson [Lillas Pastia], Ben Turpin [Le Remendado], Leo White [Morales], John Rand [Escamillo], May White [Frasquita], Bud Jamison, Wesley Ruggles [tramp], Lawrence A. Bowes, Frank J. Coleman

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / Scenario by Charles Chaplin, from the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (music), Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (libretto). Cinematography by Harry Ensign. / © 3 April 1916 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP8013]. Originally released on 18 December 1915 in two reels. Four reel version premiered 22 April 1916 at 3986 feet. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. Chaplin’s last official Essanay film. Two-reel version later expanded to four reels by Essanay with outtakes and new subplot involving Turpin, directed by Leo White. The film (four reel version) was rereleased in January 1920 on State Rights basis by Victor Kremer Film Features, Incorporated.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0643.

Survival Status: Prints exist [35mm positive], in the Em Gee Film Library film collection [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives, 8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Criminals: Smugglers - Death: Suicide - Soldiers - Spain - Spanish

Listing updated: 4 August 2007.

References: Film viewing : AFI-F1 nn. F1.0611, F1.0643; Bardèche-History pp. 119-120; Bohn-Light pp. 69, 99; Jacobs-Chaplin p. 136; Kerr-Silent pp. 79, 81, 82, 89; Lahue-World p. 32; Limbacher-Feature p. 34; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy p. 254; Spehr-American p. 597; Tarbox-Lost p. 246; Vermilye-Twenties p. 183; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 324 : Variety-57-5 p. 223.

Home Video: DVD.