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Tag Archives: Charles Chaplin
A King in New York (1957) Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York – almost broke. Read More »
City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. Read More »
Limelight (1952) Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce
Chaplin’s final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian’s effort to help a despondent Read More »
The Gold Rush (1925) Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters Read More »
The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side Read More »
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) Charles Chaplin, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
In Hong Kong, the wealthy Ogden Mears is traveling in a transatlantic, close to being assigned Saudi Arabian ambassador, and divorcing his wife Martha. Read More »
The Circus (1928) Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Comedy, Romance
The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he is promptly chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Read More »
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Drama, Romance
Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces back and forth between apparent security and true love. Also misinterpreting, Jean commits suicide.
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