A Disappointing Continuation

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

100 years passed since the release of this film.Chaplin is the most famous icon in cinema. He was successful in reaching the wider audience, without barriers of Nation and Language. Making a great movie, with comedy is the toughest task. He is the best at it. Chaplin is one of the legends who suffered a lot before their prosperity. All those bitter memories crafted him. Most of them are reflected in his works. His most famous character Tramp is the example.The famous scene in this movie, when Chaplin picks a coin that he found on the street and walks to the restaurant, not knowing that it was fallen from his pocket was the first idea he had. It was the first thing to film. The rest was developed later. This was one of his last films made for "Mutual Film" company. Later Chaplin started his own production. Chaplin was almost ready to be a great film maker by this movie. He spent Editing contiguous 4 days without sleep to release it in time.The first scene is worth mentioning. The swinging visuals give us the notion of the ship. These kind of perspective film making was not very common in those times.A movie lover should watch this film. Highly recommended. #KiduMovie

It really is no surprise to recognize that Charlie Chaplin's short The Immigrant deeply resonated with the, at that time, present day immigrants who came to America with the mindset to make something of themselves in "the land of opportunities," but had to settle for laborious blue collar work before they could even hope to become moderately successful. That kind of drudgery takes a toll on people, and Chaplin's early, 1917 short shows the real struggle as the lovable Tramp finds himself aboard a steamer in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. An immigrant of little skill, he spends his days on the ship playing cards, eating in an unstable cafeteria, and trying to avoid cramped, tired, and seasick passengers while keeping in mind the opportunities he will likely be granted with in America.The Tramp winds up befriending an unidentified immigrant (Edna Purviance) along the way, who is traveling to America with her sick mother, both of whom were victim to a pickpocket, who is losing in a high-stakes game of gambling aboard the ship. The Tramp winds up trying to restore the wealth of the two women, but gets mistaken for being a pickpocket, and is only set free thanks to the good word put in by the immigrant woman. The two part ways once the ship docks, but are unaware that this is only the beginning of their encounter.While The Immigrant definitely infuses comedy into its premise, it simply can't wholly disguise what a sad and often heartbreaking tale this short actually depicts. As it plays out, it becomes a tad more heartbreaking but also a great deal more beautiful, as we see a nice relationship develop between the two characters who effectively carry out strong emotions for each other. Chaplin is unsurprisingly quick-witted with his comedy and strong in the more dramatic instances in the film, while Purviance plays her character to the degree of achieving a certain sympathy but not giving us a character we're supposed to pity for a long period of time. The Immigrant effectively demonstrates an early blend of comedy and tragedy to the degree that Shakespeare may have found quite effective and relatable.Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, and Eric Campbell. Directed by: Charlie Chaplin.

"The Immigrant" is a 1917 silent short film directed by Charlie Chaplin.Charlie Chaplin plays the Tramp as an immigrant on a boat headed to America, he meets some nice and suspicious people along the way. He doesn't have any money, so he gets into trouble when trying to impress a girl he met on the boat.I thought it was pretty good, there are a couple funny scenes in it and its very fast paced. There was a scene I loved where a fish bites a man's nose. While its not one of Charlie Chaplin's best, which for me is "City Lights", for a short film its a very good one.I'd recommend it to anyone who liked "The Kid", or "Sherlock Jr.".

CHARLIE CHAPLIN and EDNA PURVIANCE are excellent together in this early Chaplin short covering his arrival by boat in the USA as "The Tramp" who has barely a penny to his name. The first sequence aboard ship is especially well done, full of the kind of sight gags and slapstick humor involving him and the other passengers that would make him the most famous comedian of his time.Then the tender relationship with equally poor girl Edna Purviance and the second sequence devoted to establishing their relationship during a restaurant meal. Deftly comic moments where timing is everything are contributed by the menacing head waiter ERIC CAMPBELL, who has just thrown out a customer ten cents short of his bill. The fun begins when Charlie realizes whatever money he had from winning at cards has slipped through the hole in his pocket. A cat-and-mouse game with the waiter is played for laughs as Charlie seizes every opportunity to delay paying the bill until he accidentally finds some cash.Chaplin fans can't afford to miss this one. Both halves of the story are played to perfection.