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The Immigrant
Also known as L’émigrant in France
(1917) American
B&W : Two reels / 1809 feet
Directed by Charles Chaplin

Cast: Charles Chaplin [the immigrant], Edna Purviance [immigrant girl], Kitty Bradbury [her mother], Eric Campbell [the menacing waiter], Henry Bergman [the artist, and an immigrant woman], Albert Austin [ill immigrant; the hot-soup restaurant patron], Stanley Sanford (Tiny Sanford) [angry gambler], James T. Kelley [poor restaurant patron], John Rand [drunken restaurant patron], Loyal Underwood, Frank J. Coleman

Lone Star Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Charles Chaplin. Cinematography by Roland H. Totheroh and W.C. Foster. / Released 17 June 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in the Lone Star Studio in Hollywood, California, and on location at sea. Approximately 90,000 feet of film was shot in the making of this 1800-foot short.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Keywords: Artists - Cafes - Drunkeness - Drunks - Immigrants - Pianos - Pursers - Ships - Tables - USA: New York: New York - USA: New York: Statue of Liberty - Waiters - Water

Listing updated: 7 March 2007.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 81, 120, 121, 122; Bohn-Light p. 69; Everson-American pp. 265, 369; Jacobs-Chaplin pp. 50e, 54, 136; Kerr-Silent pp. 88-89, 92, 96-97; Lahue-World p. 68; Shipman-Cinema p. 61; Sinyard-Silent pp. 104, 105; Sklar-Movie pp. 113, 114, 115.

Home video: DVD.