Charles Chaplin Collection - 7-Disc Box Set ( The Kid / A Woman of Paris / Modern Times / The Great Dictator / Monsieur Verdoux / Limelight / A King in New York ) ( Charlie Chaplin )

Charles Chaplin Collection - 7-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: The Kid / A Woman of Paris / Modern Times / The Great Dictator / Monsieur Verdoux / Limelight / A King in New York
Alternate Title: Charlie Chaplin
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
975 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1921 - 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Charles Chaplin

Written By:
Charles Chaplin
Orson Welles

Actors:
Carl Miller ..... The Man
Edna Purviance ..... The Woman
Jackie Coogan ..... The Child
Charles Chaplin ..... A Tramp
Edna Purviance ..... Marie St. Clair
Clarence Geldart ..... Marie's Step-Father
Carl Miller ..... Jean Millet
Lydia Knott ..... Jean's Mother
Charles K. French ..... Jean's Father
Adolphe Menjou ..... Pierre Revel
Betty Morrissey ..... Fifi
Malvina Polo ..... Paulette
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 ..... Merna, His Step-Daughter - A Circus Rider
Harry Crocker ..... Rex - A Tight Rope Walker
George Davis ..... Professor Bosco - A Magician
Henry Bergman ..... An Old Clown
Tiny Sandford ..... The Head Property Man
John Rand ..... An Assistant Property Man
Steve Murphy ..... A Pickpocket
Virginia Cherrill ..... A Blind Girl
Florence Lee ..... Her Grandmother
Harry Myers ..... An Eccentric Millionaire
Al Ernest Garcia ..... His Butler
Hank Mann ..... A Prizefighter
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 ..... 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 ..... Henri Verdoux - Alias Varnay - Alias Bonheur - Alias Floray
Mady Correll ..... Mona - His Wife
Allison Roddan ..... Peter - Their Son
Robert Lewis ..... Maurice Bottello - Verdoux's Friend
Audrey Betz ..... Martha - His Wife
Martha Raye ..... Annabella Bonheur
Ada May ..... Annette - Her Maid
Isobel Elsom ..... Marie Grosnay
Marjorie Bennett ..... Her Maid
Helene Heigh ..... Yvonne - Marie's Friend
Margaret Hoffman ..... Lydia Floray
Marilyn Nash ..... The Girl
Irving Bacon ..... Pierre Couvais
Edwin Mills ..... Jean Couvais
Virginia Brissac ..... Carlotta Couvais
Charles Chaplin ..... Calvero
Claire Bloom ..... Thereza
Nigel Bruce ..... Postant
Buster Keaton ..... Calvero's Partner
Sydney Chaplin ..... Neville
Norman Lloyd ..... Bodalink
Andre Eglevsky ..... Dancer
Melissa Hayden ..... Dancer
Marjorie Bennett ..... Mrs. Alsop
Wheeler Dryden ..... Thereza's Doctor
Barry Bernard ..... John Redfern
Stapleton Kent ..... Claudius
Mollie Glessing ..... Maid
Leonard Mudie ..... Dr. Blake
Loyal Underwood ..... Street Musician
Charles Chaplin ..... King Shahdov
Maxine Audley ..... Queen Irene
Jerry Desmonde ..... Prime Minister Voudel
Oliver Johnston ..... Ambassador Jaume
Dawn Addams ..... Ann Kay - TV Specialist
Sid James ..... Johnson - TV Advertiser
Joan Ingram ..... Mona Cromwell - Hostess
Michael Chaplin ..... Rupert Macabee
John McLaren ..... Macabee Senior
Phil Brown ..... Headmaster
Harry Green ..... Lawyer
Robert Arden ..... Liftboy
Alan Gifford ..... School Superintendent
Robert Cawdron ..... U.S. Marshal
George Woodbridge ..... Member of Atomic Commission
Charles Chaplin ..... Narrator / Various (archive footage)
Albert Austin ..... Various (archive footage)
Henry Bergman ..... Various (archive footage)
Syd Chaplin ..... Various (archive footage)
Edna Purviance ..... Various (archive footage)
Mack Swain ..... Various (archive footage)
Loyal Underwood ..... Various (archive footage)

Synopsis:

The Kid (1921) The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. A Woman of Paris (1923) Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station. City Lights (1931) The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with.Modern Times (1936) The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. 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. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards. Limelight (1952) A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives. A King in New York (1957) A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist. The Chaplin Revue (1959) 1. A Dog's Life (1918) 2. Shoulder Arms (1918) 3. The Pilgrim (1922)

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.

A Woman of Paris (1923)
Charlie Chaplin directs this silent melodrama about a small-town girl, Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance), who sets out to find romantic affirmation in the City of Lights. Believing she's been jilted by her artist beau (Carl Miller), Marie heads to Paris and becomes the mistress of a wealthy playboy (Adolphe Menjou). When she runs into her ex-lover years later and he again proclaims his love to her, she must choose between two different lives.

Modern Times (1936)
Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, 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 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.

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.

Limelight (1952)
Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.

A King in New York (1957)
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 October, 2014.

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