The Immigrant (1917)

THE IMMIGRANT  (1917)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Charles Chaplin
    Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell,
    Henry Bergman, Kitty Bradbury, Albert Austin
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp gets on a boat bound for America in one of his classic two-reel comedies. It's really just two episodes - one on the boat at sea and the other in a restaurant after the ship's arrival - and you can see the potential for a much longer movie. (If he'd made it a few years later, it almost certainly would've been a feature.) Eric Campbell (of course) plays the restaurant waiter. Edna Purviance (of course) plays the girl.