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1) Modern times
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (217 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (241 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 5 notes (4 p. ea. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A master filmmaker and comic genius rolled into one, Charlie Chaplin set a standard for comedy that has inspired artists for over 70 years. This set is an example of Chaplin and his trademark "Little Tramp" at their best.
6) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Formats
Description
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin?s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times?though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)?is a timeless showcase of Chaplin?s untouchable...
7) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVD videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
An aging vaudeville star saves a young ballerina from suicide and then helps make her a star.
8) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary actor Charlie Chaplin stars as The Little Tramp who stumbles upon an abandoned baby in an alley and takes him into his care in this landmark silent film. As 'the kid' grows older, they become partners in crime, until one day when the child falls ill and hospital workers endeavor to take the boy away. One of the most famous silent films of all time--and the first that Chaplin wrote and directed himself--it is also regarded as the first ever...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
10) The gold rush
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (169 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl....
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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."
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (233 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (160 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) in container.
Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
16) The circus
Series
Criterion collection volume 996
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin shines as director, composer, and star. A gag-packed comedy full of audacious set pieces, it showcases silent cinema's most popular entertainer and ranks among Chaplin's finest.
17) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
18) City lights
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portratis, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during the 1950s Red Scare. While living abroad he made his last, and by general agreement, worst films, only to return home years later to a triumphant reception."--
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