The Tramp
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Charlie is a tramp on the road. A hobo manages to exchange Charlie's sandwich for a brick so Charlie must eat grass. The same hobo molests a farmer's daughter; Charlie comes to aid with the help of the brick. When two more hobos show up Charlie throws all three into a lake. The grateful girl takes Charlie home where he fails as a farmhand. He again helps drive off the hobos (who are now trying to break into the house). The girl's fiance arrives. Though a hero, Charlie, knowing he must go, writes a farewell note and leaves for the open road.
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1915
Length: 19'38
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
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Actors:
Edna Purviance ... Farmer's Daughter
Ernest Van Pelt ... Farmer
Paddy McGuire ... Farmhand
Lloyd Bacon ... Edna's Fiancé/Second Thief
Leo White ... First Thief
Bud Jamison ... Third Thief
Billy Armstrong ... Minister
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Baxter Martin
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2008-04-02 13:28:49
Chaplin's "The Tramp"
“The Tramp” (1915, Chaplin)
“The Tramp” is a memorable film in the Chaplin canon. It establishes a greater focus on the meandering hobo character that Chaplin had played many times in the forty films before this one. However, going forward, this tramp/hobo would now be the essential trademark character. Chaplin’s hobo couldn’t be the part-time thug full time thief he had been in some of those earlier incarnations of the tramp. Here he is now defending some woman somewhere rural and he doesn’t even know her. The tramp takes on three thugs and defeats them time and again. This tramp would be the good hobo employing skills honed from his past experience on the dark side of hobo life.
This was Chaplin 26th time directing and sixth film for Essanay in 1915. The scenes are better acted and executed this year around. There’s less of the frantic-ness, although still plenty of it, and more buildup and deliberateness in this film. Chaplin is still the kind of guy who likes to jab other people in the ass with pitchforks but this time he’s joking! Haha! For all you folks who grew up watching Looney Tunes and other assorted Saturday morning cartoons, “The Tramp” is a great exhibition of where all the physical antics originated.
