1The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
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1A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
2A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
3The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
4The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
5A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
6A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.
7An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
8The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
9At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.
10When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
11The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
12A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
13An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
14An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.
15Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
16A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
17The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…
18After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
19An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
20A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.