Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

ofpsmith The Tramp was one of the earliest Charlie Chaplin movies, that adopted a blend of slapstick and heart that he would become so well known for. The Tramp (Chaplin) is just walking down the road, when he saves a girl (Edna Purviance) from some hobos. He goes to work for Purviance's father (and doesn't do so well), and saves the family from hobos again. 1915 was the year that Chaplin started using the tramp character well, and would continue to do so until The Great Dictator. The Tramp's ending is almost sad, but in a way satisfying. Chaplin was really starting to go strong with this film. For Chaplin fans, I can highly recommend this.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This, of course, refers to the title character (who appeared already before this one in films) in this 27-minute black-and-white silent short film from over 100 years ago. Chaplin reprised this role several times later, also in his most famous full feature films. The action in this film takes place mostly at a farm. The Tramp helps the farmer and his daughter (Edna Purviance, who is a regular in Chaplin movies) deal with a bunch of crooks who try to burgle the place. Chaplin, at one point, acts as if he would cooperate with them and get 50% of the money the steal, but it's all fake. The truth is that he is madly in love with the farmer's daughter. Unfortunately, at the very end, her fiancé appears and I felt sorry for the Tramp, but also for myself because I sat through this half hour which really wasn't that great. i did not feel that they had enough material for half an hour and the criminals also became a bit repetitive quickly. I usually like it if they include something beyond Chaplin's slapstick comedy routine, but here it wasn't working or I should maybe say it could have worked if they had kept it at 20 minutes max or come up with a better elaborated story with more depth. Not one of Chaplin's best. Not recommended.

WakenPayne When I was around 11 I LOVED Charlie Chaplin films. I thought they were great displays of physical comedy. My favourites of his movies were The Kid and City Lights. I remembered his shorts being a little dated in terms of humour, and it is. With that being said it does not make this un-enjoyable.The plot of this short is that everybody's favourite tramp emerges on a road. He saves a woman from being mugged by three incompetent thieves and while repetitive it is fun to watch the Tramp fight them. He goes to the woman's house asking for a reward. Her father says that the reward will be to give the Tramp a job. While that is going on he (un)intentionally causes pain to the people around him (and that has actually aged well after 98 years). The three bumbling thieves then re-emerge and with the drop of a hat The Tramp accepts in helping them steal this woman's money. In reality however it was a scheme to fight the thieves off another time, the unfortunate twist on this story is that the woman is in love with someone else.Now for a comedy film to still hold up enough for fresh eyes to enjoy it after 98 years is pretty damn impressive. It is actually pretty funny seeing this character's antics causing others (or himself) pain whether it is intentional or not. Because those parts are the parts that hold up.I am also giving this movie extra credit because at the time film was in it's experimental phase with directors like this trying to get across a story that is funny while also getting invested. In the case of The Tramp, call me crazy but in 26 minutes - even with all his antics I was actually invested in the character (or maybe that's nostalgia resurfacing from his other movies) I was a little sad that he didn't get the girl.So if you love old fashioned slapstick humour then this is easily for you. I am definitely going to give his full-length films another shot but I am going to start with the ones I haven't seen yet. As a comedian Charlie Chaplin was funny when I was 11 and it is still funny now when I'm 17.

Robert J. Maxwell Not much to be said about this Chaplin short. Charlie was introducing the tramp character, it was early in his career (1915), he had responsibility for everything and was working like a coolie. So it isn't surprising that "The Tramp" lacks the wit, sophistication, sentimentality, and innovative quality of some of his later productions. (The sentimentality could get pretty heavy handed.) The gags are mostly crude here. Charlie hits somebody. Somebody hits Charlie back. Charlie kicks him in the pants, and so forth. Compare this with, say, "The Idle Class" to see what a difference time, intelligence, and talent made. By the way, Chaplin's status in the 1940s as persona non grata in the USA has been attributed to his being a communist/socialist/pinko/subversive/fellow traveling spy (when in fact it probably had more to do with his fondness for young girls), but you'd never know it from this specimen. He takes advantage of just about everyone but Edna Purviance, and he abuses them for the fun of it, even his lessers on the social ladder. At this point, the tramp wasn't exactly a sympathetic figure.