Some sources give the release date as the 17th but it's really the 18th.
This was Chaplin's second to last film for the Mutual Film Corporation. The day before its release, he signed his first million-dollar contract with First National.
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This was Chaplin's second to last film for the Mutual Film Corporation. The day before its release, he signed his first million-dollar contract with First National.
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| The rocking of the boat for the opening scenes was achieved by attaching a pendulum to the tripod head of the camera. |
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| There is a very similar scene between Bugs Bunny and Christopher Columbus in the 1951 cartoon Hare We Go. Chaplin built the dining hall set on rockers so it would tilt back and forth. These boat rocking tricks had previously been employed in Shanghaied (1915) |
Charlie sees Edna for the first time when she enters the dining room.
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| The gun-through-the-leg gag was recycled from The New Janitor (1914). |
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| The immigrants catch their first glimpse of the Statue Of Liberty. |
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| The part of the waiter was originally played by Henry Bergman but Chaplin didn't feel he was menacing enough so he replaced him with Eric Campbell and his diabolic eyebrows. |
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| The story goes that Chaplin did so many takes of Edna eating beans that she became ill. |
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| Chaplin wrote in My Life In Pictures (1974): "The Immigrant touched me more than any film I've made. I thought the ending had quite a poetic feeling" |