The Vagabond

Jul 10, 1916

0h 24m

★ 6.8

Overview

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

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Lone Star Corporation

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Cast

The Saloon Violinist

Charlie Chaplin

The Gypsy Drudge

Edna Purviance

The Gypsy Chief

Eric Campbell

The Mother

Charlotte Mineau

Trombonist (uncredited)

Albert Austin

(uncredited)

Phyllis Allen

Artist (uncredited)

Lloyd Bacon

(uncredited)

Henry Bergman

Gypsy and Musician (uncredited)

Frank J. Coleman

Gypsy and Musician (uncredited)

James T. Kelley

Trumpeter & Band Leader (uncredited)

John Rand

Old Jew / Gypsy Woman (uncredited)

Leo White

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

7.1

Bed and Board

Sep 9, 1970

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

6.5

The Champion

Mar 11, 1915

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 take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

5.7

The Man with One Red Shoe

Jul 18, 1985

A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.

6.5

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Nov 12, 1974

With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.

6.5

The Absent-Minded Waiter

Jul 13, 1977

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.

9.0

The End Of The Film

Aug 24, 2012

João Lucas works at a video store and always ends up revealing the ending of films to customers. After being approached by a girl who always rents the same movie, the two eccentric characters start to argue about the true meaning of the plot and attract each other through their passion for cinema.

5.4

Between Showers

Feb 28, 1914

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

5.1

Cruel, Cruel Love

Mar 26, 1914

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

6.1

Dough and Dynamite

Oct 26, 1914

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.

5.5

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Feb 7, 1914

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

5.5

Laughing Gas

Jul 9, 1914

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

5.6

Mabel's Busy Day

Jun 13, 1914

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

5.3

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Feb 9, 1914

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

5.4

The Fatal Mallet

Jun 1, 1914

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

5.7

The Masquerader

Aug 27, 1914

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

6.2

The New Janitor

Sep 14, 1914

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.

6.7

Disorder in the Court

May 30, 1936

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.

5.7

Glad Rags to Riches

Feb 4, 1933

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

6.2

Surviving Sid

Oct 20, 2008

Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.