The Pilgrim

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The Pilgrim
Directed by	Charles Chaplin
Written by	Charles Chaplin
Starring	Charles Chaplin Edna Purviance Kitty Bradbury Syd Chaplin Mack Swain
Release date(s)	February 26, 1923
Running time	59 min
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by the First National Film Company starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance.

The film marks the last time Edna Purviance would co-star with Chaplin and the last film he made for First National. Purviance also starred in Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) which had Chaplin in a brief cameo. It was Chaplin's second-shortest feature, constructed more like a two-reeler from his earlier career. It is also noted as the first film for Charles Riesner, who became a screenwriter in his later years.

In 1959, Chaplin included The Pilgrim as one of three films comprising The Chaplin Revue. Slightly re-edited and fully re-scored, the film contained a song, "I'm Bound For Texas", words and music written by Chaplin, sung by Matt Monroe.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cast
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals clothes to get rid of this prison uniform. He ends up in a small town mistaken for a parson.

[edit] Trivia

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A newspaper being held by a sheriff sitting next to Chaplin on the train gives Chaplin's character's name as Lefty Lombard. Dated May 17, 1922, the newspaper's headline reads in full:

"Lefty Lombard" alias "Slippery Elm" leaps into drain pipe in dining hall of prison and escapes through sewer, $1,000 reward offered, Guards stand petrified with astonishment as prisoner makes leap — believed to be part of wholesale escape plan.

[edit] Cast

Charles Chaplin - The Pilgrim
Edna Purviance - Miss Brown
Kitty Bradbury - Mrs. Brown, Edna's Mother
Syd Chaplin - Eloper/Train Conductor/Little Boy's Father
Mack Swain - Large Deacon
Mai Wells - Little Boy's Mother
Dean Riesner - Little Boy
Loyal Underwood - Small Deacon
Charles Reisner - Howard Huntington, Crook
Tom Murray - Sheriff Bryan
Henry Bergman - Sheriff on Train/Man In Railroad Station

[edit] External links

The Pilgrim at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Charlie Chaplin filmography

Keystone Studios (1914)	Making a Living • Kid Auto Races at Venice • Mabel's Strange Predicament • Between Showers • A Film Johnnie • Tango Tangles • His Favourite Pastime • Cruel, Cruel Love • The Star Boarder • Mabel at the Wheel • Twenty Minutes of Love • Caught in a Cabaret • Caught in the Rain • A Busy Day • The Fatal Mallet • Her Friend the Bandit • Mabel's Busy Day • Mabel's Married Life • Laughing Gas • The Face on the Bar Room Floor • Recreation • The Masquerader • His New Profession • The Rounders • The Property Man • The New Janitor • Those Love Pangs • Dough and Dynamite • Gentlemen of Nerve • His Musical Career • His Trysting Place • Tillie's Punctured Romance • Getting Acquainted • His Prehistoric Past

Essanay Studios (1915-1918)	His New Job • A Night Out • The Champion • In the Park • A Jitney Elopement • The Tramp • By the Sea • His Regeneration (uncredited) • Work • A Woman • The Bank • Shanghaied • A Night in the Show • Burlesque on Carmen • Police • Triple Trouble

Mutual Film Corp (1916-1917)	The Floorwalker • The Fireman • The Vagabond • One A.M. • The Count • The Pawnshop • Behind the Screen • The Rink • Easy Street • The Cure • The Immigrant • The Adventurer

First National (1918-1923)	A Dog's Life • The Bond • Shoulder Arms • Sunnyside • A Day's Pleasure • The Professor • The Kid • The Idle Class • Pay Day • The Pilgrim

United Artists (1923-1952)	A Woman of Paris • The Gold Rush • The Circus • City Lights • Modern Times • The Great Dictator • Monsieur Verdoux • Limelight

Later productions	A King in New York • The Chaplin Revue • A Countess from Hong Kong • The Freak • The Nut • Souls For Sale • A Woman of the Sea • Show People • Chaplin

Stock company	Edna Purviance • Eric Campbell • Albert Austin • Henry Bergman