1915 - 1926
with live music accompaniment (Graeme Costin), 85 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
General seating - not reserved or numbered
(T 0419 267 318)
The Tramp (1915)
25 minutes
2025 is the 111th Anniversary of Charlie’s start in film and coincides with the 136th Anniversary of his birth. Two wonderful milestones to celebrate! This short folds pathos neatly into the slapstick with our hero playing a kind-hearted drifter down on his luck who finds welcome and work at a farm. There is plenty of rowdy fun with pitchforks and ladders but by the 1915 film's touching conclusion Charlie’s development as a filmmaker is on full display.
In this short he establishes more fully the personality of the Tramp for his ensuing movies. There is still physical comedy and gags but his character shows more emotional complexity not just for Charlie but for comic figures of the silent era in general at that stage. There are villains to vanquish and a beauty to woo but the conclusion is bitter-sweet with the Tramp setting off on life’s road with a click of his ill-fitting shoes and a spring in his step. Audiences around the world were hooked and joined him on the voyage. Thank you Charlie!
For Heaven’s Sake (1926)
58 minutes
This feature was one of Lloyd’s greatest successes. Here he is a spoilt wealthy young man whose life trajectory changes abruptly when he is smitten by a young woman running a church mission for the homeless. They become engaged but then things happen (as they do)....! Every second of the film is packed with clever visuals, collisions, chases and a confused source of moonlight for the young couple. The race-to-the-rescue sequence driving the conclusion is one of Lloyd’s most memorable and stunning finales.
Audiences agreed with the critics: “The climactic chase is as hilarious and exciting a piece of celluloid as has ever been produced, but it is merely the capper to an uninterrupted stream of brilliant sight gags. Long underrated, For Heaven's Sake is one of the cleverest and most consistently entertaining of all of Harold Lloyd's silent vehicles.”
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Sutherland Uniting Church
9 Merton Street, Sutherland NSW 2232
Corner Flora and Merton Streets, short walk from Sutherland station, eastern side, behind the Pavilion Entertainment Centre.
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