The Tramp

Independent Films, Public Domain, Comedy, Classic Movies

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.


Details

Language: Silent

Year of production: 1915

Length: 19:38

Country: United States

Suggested by:
Baxter_Martin

License

Creative Commons License
The Tramp by CharlieChaplin is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain 3.0 License.

Directors:

  • Charlie Chaplin

Producers:

  • Jess Robbins

Actors:

  • Charlie Chaplin ... Tramp 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

Comments for The Tramp

  • Baxter Martin on 02 April at 13:28Report abuse

    “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.


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