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Charlie Chaplin's 61st Film Released June 17 1917.
The Immigrant (also called Broke) 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 (in character as another immigrant who falls in love with Charlie) that she became physically ill.
The scene in which Chaplin's character kicks an immigration officer was cited later as evidence of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the United States in the 1950s. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

'The Immigrant' is one of Charlie Chaplin's most beloved short films, and while it's highly enjoyable, that probably has more to do with its representation of American ideals. Himself British, Chaplin and Edna Purviance play immigrants. The first part of the film has them aboard a ship set for the states. These scenes are mostly Chaplin's typically refined slapstick and pantomime, but t's also a tendency towards a style of actuality, or documentary-like scenes--rather like the social realism pictures, such as with the opening shots of the immigrants.
T are also the sweet, tender moments and the pathos. By now, Chaplin had realized the tramp as a sympathetic protagonist whom audiences could root for, which is quite a transformation from his earlier incarnations. Once again, Chaplin balances seemingly perpendicular approaches fluently. T are very funny moments, such as in the restaurant and the gambling scene; sweet moments such as the ending; and of the actuality-like aspects, many have remarked on the shot of the Statue of Liberty.
As well, the happy ending with the artist represents the ideal of America as the land of opportunity. Some see a hint of social commentary, or slight criticizing, of America, as well, in 'The Immigrant'; the scene w the tramp kicks an immigration officer in the bum having supposedly aroused FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to revoke Chaplin's visa, as represented in 'Chaplin' (1992). Besides some generally politically neutral commentary on poverty and such, I don't see it; it's completely the opposite: 'The Immigrant' is an undisguised tribute to America as the land of opportunity (as it certainly was for Chaplin) and other such ideals. And, if 'The Immigrant' seems episodic at times, it's only indicative of the need for him to make longer films to better entertain and more fully express his ideas, which he would at First National.

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