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2) The circus
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A tramp fleeing the police takes refuge in a circus, becomes a clown by accident, and falls for an equestrienne.
3) City lights
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
None
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.
Series
Charlie Chaplin collection volume Vol. 11
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Three Charlie Chaplin silent films produced by First National Pictures in 1919-1921.
5) Gold rush
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Little Tramp searches for gold and love in the Klondike. Includes both a restored version of the original 1925 silent film, and the 1942 re-issue, the latter featuring a new score and narration written and spoken by Charles Chaplin.
Series
Chaplin collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin is the little tramp in the adventure as a gold prospector in the icy Yukon.
Series
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.
8) The kid
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Tramp rescues an abandoned baby and raises him to become his inseparable sidekick.
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A king in New York: A king fleeing a revolution takes refuge in the USA. He is led by an advertising agent to make commercials, is suspected of being a communist, testifies before the Un-American Activities Committee and returns to Europe ; A woman of Paris: When her elopement to her beau fails, Marie winds up in Paris as a kept woman whose attempt at reconciliation with her true love only leads to more grief and, finally, tragedy.
10) Limelight
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
11) Modern times
Series
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
Chaplin collection volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A factory worker is driven crazy by the monotony and automation at work.
13) Monsieur Verdoux
Series
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."
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