Charles Chaplin

  • Charles Chaplin – The Circus (1928)

    1921-1930Charles ChaplinComedyDramaUSA
    The Circus (1928)
    The Circus (1928)

    Quote:
    The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin’s Little Tramp as a clown, when he discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally, not on purpose.Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator (1940)

    1931-1940Charles ChaplinComedyUSAWar

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    In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – Those Love Pangs (1914)

    1911-1920Charles ChaplinShort FilmSilentUSA

    Quote:
    Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall for different girls, though Charlie’s has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws his girl’s friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen.Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – City Lights (1931)

    1931-1940Charles ChaplinComedySilentUSA

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    The Tramp meets a poor blind girl selling flowers on the streets and falls in love with her. The blind girl mistakes him for a millionaire. Since he wants to help her and doesn’t want to disappoint her, he keeps up the charade. He befriends a drunk millionaire, works small jobs like street sweeping, and enters a boxing contest, all to raise money for an operation to restore her sight.

    CHAPLIN HILARIOUS IN HIS ‘CITY LIGHTS’; Tramp’s Antics in Non-Dialogue Film Bring Roars of Laughter at Cohan Theatre. TAKES FLING AT “TALKIES” Pathos Is Mingled With Mirth in a Production of Admirable Artistry.

    Charlie Chaplin, master of screen mirth and pathos, presented at the George M. Cohan last night before a brilliant gathering his long-awaited non-dialogue picture, “City Lights,” and proved so far as he is concerned the eloquence of silence. Many of the spectators either rocking in their seats with mirth, mumbling as their sides ached, “Oh, dear, oh, dear,” or they were stilled with sighs and furtive tears. And during a closing episode, when the Little Tramp sees through the window of a flower shop the girl who has recovered her sight through his persistence, one woman could not restrain a cry.Read More »

  • Gilbert M. ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson – His Regeneration (1915)

    1911-1920Charles ChaplinGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonShort FilmSilentUSA

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    A rough criminal gets into an argument over a girl in a dance hall. The argument turns into a fight…Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – By the Sea (1915)

    1911-1920Charles ChaplinSilentUSA

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    Quote:
    It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other’s wife.Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – The Tramp (1915)

    1911-1920Charles ChaplinShort FilmSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSA

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    The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and works on a family farm.Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – The Gold Rush [+Extras] (1925)

    1921-1930Charles ChaplinComedySilentUSA

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    Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader wrote:
    Charles Chaplin’s best-loved film, with the tramp down-and-out (as usual) in Alaska, where he looks for gold, falls in love with a dance-hall girl (Georgia Hale), eats his shoes for Thanksgiving dinner, and ends up a millionaire. The blend of slapstick and pathos is seamless, although the cynicism of the final scene is still surprising. Chaplin’s later films are quirkier and more personal, but this is quintessential Charlie, and unmissable. The film has been issued in several different forms with different sound tracks and cuts, including a 72-minute version butchered by Chaplin himself in the 40s. Hold out for the 1925 original, which runs 82 minutes.Read More »

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