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Modern Times ***** (1936, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman) – Classic Movie Review 2552

Charles Chaplin’s endlessly clever, inventive and witty 1936 satire on modern factory methods, inspired by René Clair’s famous 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté, is a silent comedy made nearly a decade after […]

Jun, 02

Lady and the Tramp ***** (1955, voices of Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, George Givot, Stan Freberg) – Classic Movie Review 2221

Directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1955 Disney animated feature is the story of a female American pedigree Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family, and a male stray mutt mongrel named the Tramp. […]

Feb, 28

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 […]

Apr, 05

City Lights ***** (1931, Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 1043

Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s still-renowned, often brilliant 1931 comedy classic is a silent movie, even though he made it three years after the talkies had come in. It is over-burdened with sentimentality from another age but […]

Apr, 02

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