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Chaplin's last film for First National, 1923: an escaped convict in a stolen parson's suit is taken for the new minister of a Texas town. The sermon on David and Goliath, done in pantomime, is the picture. So is the sheriff who waits until after the wedding. Edna Purviance is the girl; Syd Chaplin is the eloper. Chaplin directed. It is the Tramp as a man the law and the church have both misread, and the joke is that he is better at the job than the man who was supposed to arrive.
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An escaped convict in a parson's suit, mistaken for the new minister in a Texas town. The David and Goliath sermon in pantomime is the film. The censors objected, which tells you it was a sermon. Watch the last shot: a border, a sheriff, one foot on each side.
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