The Pilgrim

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 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. 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.
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