Chaplin at Mutual – Chaplin Shorts

100 years ago this month, Charlie Chaplin became the highest paid entertainer in the world when he signed with the Mutual Film Corporation; the dozen shorts he produced for them include some of the funniest and most brilliant sequences of his career. Program includes:

“The Immigrant” (1917, 22 min.) The Tramp sails to America and falls in love with Edna Purviance in Chaplin’s favorite two-reel comedy.

“The Cure” (1917, 31 min.) Chaplin plays a drunkard who inebriates an entire health spa.

“The Rink” (1916, 24 min.) Chaplin proves a clumsy waiter but a graceful skater in this slapstick-filled short.

“The Adventurer” (1917, 31 min.) The final film under his Mutual contract stars Chaplin as an escaped convict.