Film Forum

U.S., 1921
Directed, Written, and Produced by Charlie Chaplin
Starring Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance
Approx. 68 min.

Charlie meets his match in the person of 6-year-old Jackie Coogan, a streetwise ragamuffin raised since infancy by the Little Tramp. The first true Chaplin feature, an instant classic, interweaves sublime slapstick with some of the greatest tear-jerking moments in cinema history.

plus Easy Street
U.S., 1917
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Written by Charlie Chaplin, Vincent Bryan, Maverick Terrell
Starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell
Approx. 23 min.

Reviews

“Nowhere is the genuinely poignant sense of human needs and ideals that Chaplin creates through the collision of sentiment with the physical and everyday more poetically achieved.”
– Tom Gunning