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The Immigrant **** (1917, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 2536
This now restored 25-minute silent comedy short from 1917 is among writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best work, still clever, touching and above all funny after 100 years. He’s a poor new arrival to America, who endures hardships […]
The Circus **** (1928, Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 2534
Writer-producer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1928 silent movie is both funny and delightful. Once again he takes on his familiar persona as the Tramp, hiding out from the police in a circus, where he soon falls for […]
Monsieur Verdoux **** (1947, Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll) – Classic Movie Review 2409
Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]
Shoulder Arms (1918, Charles Chaplin) – Classic Film Review 1055
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1918 silent comedy is another one of his masterpieces. At 46 minutes, it is his shortest feature film. Originally planned at five reels, it was edited down and outtakes were preserved in Chaplin’s […]
The Kid ***** (1921, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1053
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1921 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. It ominously starts by declaring itself ‘a comedy with a smile – and perhaps a tear’ but that needn’t put us off too […]
The Gold Rush ***** (1925, Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray) – Classic Movie Review 1052
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1925 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. Chaplin said it was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. It was the highest grossing silent comedy and the fifth […]
The Great Dictator ***** (1940, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 1044
Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]