Edna Purviance Movies

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

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

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...

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

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...

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...

Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp,...

Features four films made for the Mutual Film Company: The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, and Behind the Screen. Includes new digital stereo scores...

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

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

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

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....

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

Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his clips.