The Immigrant is a silent 1917 American comedy short film starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. The movie was written and directed by Chaplin. According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a... restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket. It was not until later that Chaplin decided the reason the Tramp was penniless was that he had just arrived on a boat from Europe, and used this notion as the basis for the first half. Purviance reportedly was required to eat so many plates of beans during the many takes to complete the restaurant sequence that she became physically ill.
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| Release date: | June 17, 1917 |
| Directed by: | Charlie Chaplin, Edward Brewer |
| Runtime: | 24 Minutes |
| Producer: | John Jasper |
| Editor: | Charlie Chaplin |
| Cinematography: | George C. Zalibra, Roland Totheroh |
| Screenplay by: | Charlie Chaplin, Vincent P. Bryan, Maverick Terrell |
| Genre: | Short Film |