The fates of two people align as a beggar tries to steal money from a sleeping newspaper boy. Instead of reporting the crook to the police, the benevolent boy buys him a hearty meal, convinces him to give up drinking and helps him back onto the right path in life. Soon enough the beggar has a job, money and a roof over his head. The two friends face a bright future together. (stumfilm.dk)
On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.
At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.
As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl by making it available for her to marry her boyfriend.
Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.
John Vincent is a cop on a quest for vengeance. After finding his wife murdered in his own home, he decides to dispense justice on the murderous psycho's who have destroyed his life. Armed with only a crowbar and his wits, John takes to the city streets and takes out the insane maniacs only to find there's something worse out there.
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
A flea sets up its new home in the fur of a sleeping dog.
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...
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After returning from a party, Angela finds herself locked in her house with two unknown women, while a homeless man lurks outside.
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
夏天，某座城市的火车站前，雍容华贵的贵妇人艾德娜（艾德娜·珀薇安丝 Edna Purviance 饰）走出车厢。她于上午十点钟准时抵达车站，虽然此前已发信通知她的丈夫（查理·卓别林 Charles Chaplin 饰），但是那个心不在焉、嗜酒如命的男人完全将此事忘记。艾德娜等得实在不耐烦，于是乘车离开。与此同时，一名穷困潦倒的流浪汉也从火车底部钻出来，他和艾德娜的丈夫长得一模一样，而且盲打误撞搭乘着这位贵妇人的顺风车离开车站。艾德娜回到家中，她的丈夫却忘穿裤子闹出不少笑话，气得妻子决定和他分居。晴朗时节，独自骑马排遣烦闷心情的艾德娜在郊外邂逅流浪汉，流浪汉对之一见倾心，而各种有趣的事也相继发生……
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.