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

The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring 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.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Trivia 3 Cast 4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals a minister's clothes to get rid of this prison uniform. He ends up in a small town mistaken for a parson, and accepts a position at the local church. The Pilgrim's true identity is revealed when he tries to get a fellow crook to return money the crook stole from the Pilgrim's landlady. But rather than incarcerate the Pilgrim, the sheriff releases him at the Mexican border.

[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

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