Chaplin Collection - 5-Disc Box Set ( The Kid / The Great Dictator / Modern Times / The Gold Rush / The Circus ) ( The Dictator / The Masses )

Chaplin Collection - 5-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: The Kid / The Great Dictator / Modern Times / The Gold Rush / The Circus
Alternate Title: The Dictator / The Masses
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
404 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1921 - 1940 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Charles Chaplin

Written By:
Charles Chaplin

Actors:
Carl Miller ..... The Man
Edna Purviance ..... The Woman
Jackie Coogan ..... The Child
Charles Chaplin ..... A Tramp
Charles Chaplin ..... Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
Jack Oakie ..... Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
Reginald Gardiner ..... Schultz
Henry Daniell ..... Garbitsch
Billy Gilbert ..... Herring
Grace Hayle ..... Madame Napaloni
Carter DeHaven ..... Bacterian Ambassador
Paulette Goddard ..... Hannah
Maurice Moscovitch ..... Mr. Jaeckel
Emma Dunn ..... Mrs. Jaeckel
Bernard Gorcey ..... Mr. Mann
Paul Weigel ..... Mr. Agar
Chester Conklin ..... Barber's Customer
Esther Michelson ..... Jewish Woman
Hank Mann ..... Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit
Charles Chaplin ..... A Factory Worker
Paulette Goddard ..... A Gamin
Henry Bergman ..... Cafe Proprietor
Tiny Sandford ..... Big Bill
Chester Conklin ..... Mechanic
Hank Mann ..... Burglar
Stanley Blystone ..... Gamin's Father
Al Ernest Garcia ..... President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Richard Alexander ..... Prison Cellmate
Cecil Reynolds ..... Minister
Mira McKinney ..... Minister's Wife
Murdock MacQuarrie ..... J. Widdecombe Billows
Wilfred Lucas ..... Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint ..... Sheriff Couler
Fred Malatesta ..... Cafe Head Waiter
Charles Chaplin ..... The Lone Prospector
Mack Swain ..... Big Jim McKay
Tom Murray ..... Black Larsen
Henry Bergman ..... Hank Curtis
Malcolm Waite ..... Jack Cameron
Georgia Hale ..... Georgia
Al Ernest Garcia ..... The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
Merna Kennedy ..... His Step-daughter - A Circus Rider
Harry Crocker ..... Rex - A Tight Rope Walker
George Davis ..... A Magician
Henry Bergman ..... An Old Clown
Tiny Sandford ..... The Head Property Man
John Rand ..... An Assistant Property Man
Steve Murphy ..... A Pickpocket

Synopsis:

The Kid (1921)
In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.

The Great Dictator (1940)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a doppelganger, a poor but kind Jewish barber living in the slums, who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.

Modern Times (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

The Gold Rush (1925)
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

The Circus (1928)
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

The Kid (1921)
The opening title reads: 'A comedy with a smile--and perhaps a tear'. As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. Five years later Edna has become an opera star but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. A doctor called by Edna discovers the note with the truth about the Kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from Charlie. Before he arrives at the Orphan Asylum Charlie steals him back and takes him to a flophouse. The proprietor reads of a reward for the Kid and takes him to Edna. Charlie is later awakened by a kind policeman who reunites him with the Kid at Edna's mansion.

The Great Dictator (1940)
During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

Modern Times (1936)
The idea of the film was apparently given to Chaplin by a young reporter, who told him about the production line system in Detroit, which was turning its workers into nervous wrecks. In the film, Charlie becomes literally trapped in the machine and, in one of his finest patches of comic invention, is battered and buffeted by an automatic feeding machine introduced by his bosses to save time and money. Cured after his breakdown, he is arrested when he picks up a red flag that has fallen off the back of a lorry, and runs down the street to return it, exactly the same time as a left-wing demonstration comes round the corner. He meets 'The Gamine' in the back of the police van, who has also been arrested for stealing bread. From then on the theme is about two nondescripts trying to get along in modern times. 'Smile, though your heart is breaking ...'

The Gold Rush (1925)
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit (Mack Swain) and an escaped fugitive (Tom Murray), after which they part ways, with the prospector and the fugitive fighting over the prospector's claim, ending with the prospector receiving a blow to the head and the fugitive falling off a cliff to his death. The Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town where he ultimately decides to give up prospecting.

The Circus (1928)
Charlie's Tramp character finds himself at a circus where he is promptly gets chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the bigtop, he is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police. The ringmaster/owner immediately hires him, but discovers the Tramp cannot be funny on purpose, so he takes advantage of the situation by making the Tramp a janitor just happens to always in the Bigtop at showtime. Unaware of this exploitation, the Tramp falls for the owner's lovely acrobatic daughter, who is abused by her father. His chances seem good, until a dashing rival comes in and Charlie feels he has to compete with him.

The Kid (1921)
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

The Great Dictator (1940)
Twenty years after the end of WWI in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a WWI battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah, with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, who he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a want for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber, may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, they using Schultz's inside knowledge of the workings of the regime and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.

Modern Times (1936)
Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.

The Gold Rush (1925)
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

The Circus (1928)
At a circus midway, the penniless and hungry Tramp (Chaplin) is mistaken for a pickpocket and chased by both the police and the real crook (the latter having stashed a stolen wallet and watch in the Tramp's pocket to avoid detection). Running away, the Tramp stumbles into the middle of a performance and unknowingly becomes the hit of the show.

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