The Adventurer
About The Adventurer
Convict 23, called The Eel, breaks out and jeers at the men chasing him. He pulls Edna, her mother, and a suitor out of the water and nearly drowns himself. He wakes in Judge Brown's house and, at a party there, competes with the suitor for Edna. The guards are still looking for him.
Cast & crew
More about The Adventurer
Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed it, the last of his twelve Mutual films. Roland Totheroh photographed it. John Jasper produced it. Mutual released it on October 22, 1917. Wikidata gives 31 minutes. Chaplin plays the convict. Edna Purviance plays Edna. Eric Campbell plays the suitor. Henry Bergman plays the judge. A copy is on the Internet Archive as CC_1917_10_22_TheAdventurer.
Themes
Making
Chaplin closed the Mutual series with a prison break that ends at a society party.
Look
Roland Totheroh shot the cliff escape and the party at Judge Brown's.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The number on his uniform is 23.
- Albert Austin, Marta Golden, and Phyllis Allen are billed.
- It closes the Mutual contract.
- The party is in the house of the man who would be expected to send him back.
Scenes
- He slides away from the guards and into the water.
- At the party he is still the escaped man.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1917_10_22_TheAdventurer)
