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9) Modern times
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
Series
Criterion collection ; 680
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Formats
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
11) The kid
Series
Publisher
Mk2 Editions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Tramp rescues an abandoned baby and raises him to become his inseparable sidekick.
12) Monsieur Verdoux
Series
Publisher
Mk2 Editions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy first released during WWII, Henri Vedoux, played by Charlie Chaplin, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows. On another level the film is an indictment of war in which mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison."
Series
Criterion collection ; 565
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
15) City lights
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.
16) The Kid
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chaplin's first full-length directorial effort, The Kid, which he also wrote, produced and starred in, is widely regarded as one of Hollywood's great enduring masterpieces. "A comedy with a smile -- and perhaps a tear," he successfully blended humor with pathos while launching the career of Jackie Coogan as the irresistible 5 year-old. Due to its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance, The Kid was selected for preservation by the...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video/MK2 Editions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
