Edna Purviance Movies

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the...

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by...

The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril:...

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of...

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over...

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the...

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's...

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for forty years until he included some parts of it in...

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...