The Adventurer Clippings 72/84
Guardian, Manchester, England, January 28, 1918.
Frontage of Deansgate Picture House (on right side), Manchester,
England, 1914, Cinema Treasures
& A NEW CHAPLIN FILM
Charlie Chaplin is the sole justification for a large part
of the kinema‘s repertory. On the steadiness of his
success hang, with precarious clutches, numbers of weak little
screen comedians whose humour is wholly blatant.
A the Deansgate Picture House this week there is a new
Chaplin comedy. It is called „The Adventurer,“ and
portrays the hero in the role of an escaped convict. Like all
his recent films it is exceedingly well produced, and
the acting of the lesser people – pretty Edna, the big man with
peaked eyebrows, and the blundering policemen –
avoids any risk of the film being a one-man show. As regards
Charlie himself, it is a little disappointing. One would
surmise that the main object of the film is to display his really
amazing athletic skill. There are scenes of him
running, monkey-like, up the sheer slope of a sandy cliff,
of high dives and splendid swimming. He doesn‘t
carry the expressive cane, nor does he wear the bowler hat
that was bought for him when he was ten and is now
an indifferent fit. He does things which we‘ve never seen him
do before before, and the most of the time the camera
is too far away from him to catch the full significance of his
expressions of wistful doubt when he is caught and
quiet triumph when he isn‘t. But there are one or two perfect
moments in the film, as, for instance, when the freed
convict wakes up and finds himself clad in a sleeping suit,
striped like the ominous garments of Sing-Sing, and
with the bars of his bedstead behind him. M. A. L.
(...) M. A. L., Guardian, Jan. 29, 1918
„THE ADVENTURER“
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„CHARLIE CHAPLIN in ,THE ADVENTURER‘“
Deansgate Theatre, 68-74 Deansgate, Manchester.
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