DVDs on Chaplin

Shorts made from 1918 and 1923: "A Day’s Pleasure," "Sunnyside," "The Idle Class" and "Pay Day". Three silent comedies, "A Dog’s Life," "Shoulder Arms" and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film
Introduction by David Robinson
The Visitors”. Behind-the-scenes footage of visitors to Chaplin’s sets
Harry Lauder (1918): Footage that Chaplin and the great British Music Hall comedian shot for an uncompleted short
Photo gallery, film posters,
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At the first Academy Award, Charles Chaplin was honoured with a first statuette "for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus". And, it went with out saying, for again bringing laughter to packed movies across America.
When we first meet Chaplin’s Tramp in the comic gem, he’s in typical straits: broke, hungry, destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the girl. Mistaken for a pickpocket and pursued by a policeman into a circus tent, the tramp (...)

Back cover details City Lights begins with an uproarious skewering of pomp and formality, ends with one of the most famous last shots in movie history and, from start to finish, so completely touches the heart and tickles the funny bone that in 1998 it was named one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films. Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the film-making tide with this forever classic that’s silent except for music and sound effects. The story, (...)

Back cover details Come heil or high water, Charles Chaplin is in the fight! And the result is a celebrated classic honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Comedies. The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie.
Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his (...)

New York/Paris. Signposts of a career unlike any other. Cinema immortal Charles Chaplin brings his talents to both sides of the camera in this deluxe double feature. The comedy king gives American pop culture and politics the royal treatment in the satiric, penultimate Chaplin film A King in New York. Advertising, movies, TV, rock music, celebrity and more are in Chaplin’s comic sights as he portrays a deposed European monarch who becomes a U.S. media sensation.
The acclaimed Silent-Era (...)

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A young dancer wants to know if the white haired gentleman who saved her life is Calvero, the great music hall comedian. I “was” the gentleman replies.
Charles Chaplin’s Limelight is a glimmering homage to what was, a proud look at bygone entertainment era and a bittersweet tale of an artist passing the torch to a new generation. Chaplin portrays Calvero who rescues a distraught ballerina from suicide and mentors her to success. Among the films comedy (...)

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Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan when Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp confronts assembly line woes in this classic, chosen in 1998 as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee-feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a (...)

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Henri Verdoux’s business requires a lot of travel. His business involves wooing wealthy spinsters, winning their confidence and bank accounts, then killing the hapless biddies before moving on to his next conquest.
Charles Chaplin turns his traditionally sunny sensibilities inside out with this sublime black comedy about a family man who secretly uses murder to support his beloved invalid wife and child. There’s little of the immortal Tramp in Verdoux, yet the fastidious (...)

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The Gold Rush, CC famously said, is ”The film I want to be remembered by”. In 1998, leading movie critics and experts voted and remembered, choosing this 24 carat comedy as one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films.
Chaplin’s impressible little tramp seeks riches in the Yukon in this all-time classic presented here in Chaplin’s later sound era release version and a restored original silent version. Leave it to the tramp to turn hard times (...)

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One heaves rocks through windows. The other happens by in the nick of time to offer his services as an expert window repairman. It’s a system that works. So does everything else about this beloved Charlie Chaplin classic whose blend of laughs and pathos changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be. For the first time as a film-maker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the adorable (...)

New York/Paris.
Signposts of a career unlike any other.
Cinema immortal Charles Chaplin brings his talents to both sides of the camera in this deluxe double feature. The comedy king gives American pop culture and politics the royal treatment in the satiric, penultimate Chaplin film A King in New York. Advertising, movies, TV, rock music, celebrity and more are in Chaplin’s comic sights as he portrays a deposed European monarch who becomes a U.S. media sensation.
The acclaimed Silent-Era (...)

Chaplin DVDs in Japan distributed by Nippon Herald. Chaplin films available: The Gold Rush / The Kid / A Woman of Paris / The Circus / City Lights / Short Films of Chaplin / Modern times / The Great Dictator / Monsieur Verdoux / Limelight / A king in New York
For more information, see: http://www.herald.co.jp/

Volume 1: Behind the Screen / The Rink / Easy Street / The Cure / The Immigrant / The Adventurer
"Fulfilling the Mutual contract, I suppose, was the happiest period of my career" Charlie Chaplin, My Autobigraphy.
Charlie Chaplin entered movies in 1914. In 1916 he became the highest paid entertainer in the world, when he signed a contract with the Mutual Film Corporation for a salary of £670,000. Mutual built Chaplin his very own studio and allowed him total freedom to make twelve two-reel (...)

Charles Chaplin est certainement le plus grand cinéaste comique de tous les temps. Quand on demande "Qui a inventé le cinéma?", la réponse la plus fréquente, c’est "Charlot".
Après un passage très remarqué chez Mack Sennett, Chaplin signe un contrat avec la firme Essanay, où les films qu’il dirige seront les premiers chef-d’oeuvres du maître. Mais malgré leur drôlerie irrésistible, et leur éclatante perfection cinématographique, ces films sont restés peu connus et peu montrés.
Cette édition des 15 films que Chaplin réalisa pour (...)

In Charles Chaplin’s Essanay comedies , made in 1915, cinema’s greatest comedian was first able to build his screen work around performance style rather than forcing himself as before into Mack Sennett’s frenzied Keystone comedy matrix. With this freedom Chaplin evolved in a year from the gag comedian if HIS NEW JOB to the brillant pantomimist of a NIGHT OUT, THE CHAMPION,THE TRAMP and SHANGHAIED, to the profound satirist of POLICE. Despite both their obvious importance and their frequent (...)

When Charles Chaplin was forced to leave the USA in 1952, he found harbor in Switzerland and settled in a small village on Lake Geneva where he lived with his family until the end of his life in 1977. In his autobiography, written from his new home, he calls these the happiest years.
In this film, the audience is invited to gain rare insight into his family-life and his love for the circus. Chaplin’s children Geraldine, Michael and Eugene talk about their father and many friends, (...)

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