The Pilgrim (film)

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.

Synopsis

Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals a minister's clothes to get out of his 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.

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

External links

• The Pilgrim at the Internet Movie Database