The chauffeur was played by Toraichi Kono, who was Charles Chaplin's own butler, chauffeur, secretary, and bodyguard from 1916 to 1934.
Director and serious film buff Alexander Payne paid to have this Charles Chaplin short restored and shown at the Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy, in 2013, where he also introduced it.
The last of twelve films Charles Chaplin made while he was under contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In Unknown Chaplin (1983), it is playfully suggested it was not coincidental that the theme of the film was about Charlie escaping prison as Chaplin left for another company that would agree to a more flexible production schedule.
Restoration work was carried out at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2013.
The Adventurer (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from a di-acetate print from the Library of Congress and a nitrate print preserved at the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
Some fragments were added from a nitrate print in the Lobster Films Collection preserved at Archives françaises du film (CNC).
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film intertitles reconstructed by Film Preservation Associates and based on 1920s reissue prints.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.
The Adventurer (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from a di-acetate print from the Library of Congress and a nitrate print preserved at the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
Some fragments were added from a nitrate print in the Lobster Films Collection preserved at Archives françaises du film (CNC).
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film intertitles reconstructed by Film Preservation Associates and based on 1920s reissue prints.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.
The restored version produced by Film Preservation Associates in 2013 includes additional opening cards where Marta Golden is credited as playing Mrs. Brown (The Girl's Mother), which is an error. The Girl's Mother is played by Janet Sully, and Marta Golden has no part in this movie.