Edna Purviance Movies

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed...

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast...

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his...

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the...

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can...

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry....

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...

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

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...

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

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

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady...

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

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to...

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.

British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple trouble (1918)

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with...