I've seen The Adventurer well over a dozen times and each time it is just as funny as the time before. I repeatedly find myself thinking during the first scenes (where Charlie is on the beach and on the lamb from the police) that those scenes must be the high of the movie and as such that the movie will progessively sink from the close of those scenes on. Yet each time I watch the film I am pleasantly refreshed to the fact that the whole film is equally great.
Chaplin is excellent in the film, and his frequent foil in the early movies, Eric Campbell, is also perhaps at his best.
This film is well worth watching (several times).
Chaplin is excellent in the film, and his frequent foil in the early movies, Eric Campbell, is also perhaps at his best.
This film is well worth watching (several times).