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starring: Marjorie Bennett, Barry Bernard, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Josephine Chaplin

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381918526
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 99087
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1952



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Leading lady Claire Bloom called it a 'fairy godfather' story. Historians said it was frankly autobiographical. Charlie Chaplin knew it as a love story. Chaplin plays Calvero, a vaudeville clown whom time has passed by in 1914 London. Although under few illusions about his own prospects for the future, he is able to impart his passion for life to Terry (Bloom), a young ballerina who believes she is paralyzed and can no longer dance. Calvero alternately nurses and bullies her to recovery and subsequent success as a prima ballerina. From this position, she is able to help Calvero enjoy one last triumphant moment just as he suffers a fatal heart attack. As his life is ebbing, hers is flowing in a brilliant solo ballet that ends the film.

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Certainly, Charlie Chaplin at this point in his career (1952) had earned the right to reflect on his years as an entertainer, and could make his film as overlong and soppy and sentimental as he darn well pleased. But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to abet this kind of melodramatic indulgence. Chaplin stars as Calvero, a fading clown who helps a paralyzed dancer regain the use of her legs and achieve great fame, but of course at grave cost to Calvero. The film is famous for featuring the only onscreen teaming of Chaplin with the other legendary comic of the silent era, Buster Keaton, and is equally infamous for Chaplin having allegedly cut out most of Keaton's best bits in their sequence together. How much Chaplin sabotaged his own movie to keep Keaton from shining has been much debated, but consider: In Keaton's autobiography, he calls Chaplin the greatest screen comic of all time. In Chaplin's autobiography, he never mentions Keaton. --David Kronke



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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - The Most Boring Movie Chaplin Ever Made
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - CHARLES CHAPLIN, OPUS 69
***** 1952. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Academy award in the Best Musical Score category in ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It's good has a price
Few feature films can boast this movie's depth and breadth of hot breath. Its first two hours have no action, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Limelight
Famous for the only on-screen pairing of Chaplin and Keaton, the all-time masters of physical comedy, Chaplin's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - truth at the heart of humor
Charlie Chaplin's movies from very early on were not only funny, but always seemed to reveal some basic truths about ... Read More

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