The Champion

Mar 11, 1915

0h 31m

★ 6.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

The Champion Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Challenger

Charlie Chaplin

Trainer's Daughter

Edna Purviance

Spike Dugan

Ernest Van Pelt

Second Sparring Partner / Exerciser in Gym / Referee

Lloyd Bacon

Crooked gambler

Leo White

Sparring Partner

Carl Stockdale

Sparring Partner

Billy Armstrong

Sparring Partner

Paddy McGuire

Bob Uppercut, Champion

Bud Jamison

Ringside vendor

Ben Turpin

Cop

Fred Windemere

Bit Role

Henry Youngman

In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.

6.0

Prawn

Oct 4, 2018

A sensitive waiter is triggered when he sees prawns burning alive for the dinner special.

0.0

Cryptid

May 19, 2019

An awkward middle school teacher must trek through the dense woods of Oregon and find the elusive Bigfoot in an effort to save his relationship with his boyfriend.

No Image Available

0.0

As the Crows Fly

Feb 5, 1933

First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.

0.0

Dry

Jan 1, 2002

A young man who masturbates to porn finally becomes sexually active when his sister brings a female tenant to their flat.

6.6

Caddyshack

Jul 25, 1980

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.

7.1

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Jun 15, 1948

Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.

7.8

It Happened One Night

Feb 22, 1934

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

7.3

Top Hat

Aug 29, 1935

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

8.3

Modern Times

Feb 5, 1936

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

7.9

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Oct 19, 1939

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.

7.4

His Girl Friday

Jan 18, 1940

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

6.4

Bambi Meets Godzilla

Jul 10, 1969

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

No Image Available

0.0

Bullseye

Jul 1, 2009

Elliott, a thirteen year-old trying to navigate his own world and the world of his seventeen year-old brother, Nick, in the last summer before high school. As Nick drags Elliott into a world ruled by others' expectations, Elliott becomes witness to the personal integrity Nick sacrifices in the interest of social standing. When Nick's delicate illusion falls apart, both boys get a chance to confront their anxieties.