The Chaplin Collection Complete BOX

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The Chaplin Collection Complete BOX (2003) Untouched
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Charles Chaplin’s parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin, were music hall entertainers. His first stage appearance, at age five, was singing a song in place of his mother who had become ill. At eight he toured in a musical, “The Eight Lancaster Lads”. Nearly 11, he appeared in “Giddy Ostende” at London’s Hippodrome.From age 17 to 24 he was with Fred Karno’s English vaudeville troupe, which brought him to New York in 1910, aged 21. In November of 1913 he signed a contract with Mack Sennett at Keystone and left for Hollywood the next month. His first movie, Making a Living (1914), premiered in February of 1914. Mini Biography Charles Chaplin’s parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin, were music hall entertainers. His first stage appearance, at age five, was singing a song in place of his mother who had become ill. At eight he toured in a musical, “The Eight Lancaster Lads”. Nearly 11, he appeared in “Giddy Ostende” at London’s Hippodrome. From age 17 to 24 he was with Fred Karno’s English vaudeville troupe, which brought him to New York in 1910, aged 21. In November of 1913 he signed a contract with Mack Sennett at Keystone and left for Hollywood the next month. His first movie, Making a Living (1914), premiered in February of 1914. He made 35 films that year, moved to Essanay in 1915 and did 14 more, then jumped over to Mutual for 12 two-reelers in 1916 and 1917. In 1918 he joined First National (later absorbed by Warner Bros.) and in 1919 formed United Artists along with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith. His first full-length film was The Kid (1921); his first for UA, which he produced and directed himself, was A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). In 1929, at the first Oscar awards, he won a special award “for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing” The Circus (1928). In 1943 he was accused of fathering a child; the papers made much of the scandal, but it was proved in a court trial that he was not the father. The same year he entered his fourth marriage, to Oona Chaplin, daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill. They had eight children. Tired of political and moralistic controversies and plagued with tax problems, he left the United States for Switzerland in 1952. He published his memoirs in 1964. In 1972 he returned to Hollywood to claim a special Oscar honoring his lifetime contributions to movies. He was named Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1975. He died in his sleep from old age.


Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Jack Oakie, Edna Purviance, Lita Grey
Directors: Charlie Chaplin
Producers: Charlie Chaplin
Genre: Classic, Comedy, Drama
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 18
Studio: Whv
DVD Release Date: 22 Sep 2003

Contains the following eight films:

The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Limelight (1952)
The Kid (1921)
Monsieur Verdoux (1974)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)

Also contains the following bonus features:

A Woman of Paris (1923)
The legendary silent movie of manners, mores and morals, A Woman of Paris was the first Charlie Chaplin film in which he did not appear. Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) believes she has been jilted by her artist fiancé Jean (Carl Miller) when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, (Adolphe Menjou) she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces back and forth between apparent security and true love.

A King in New York (1957)
Charlie Chaplin's penultimate film - featuring his final starring performance - was made in 1957 but wasn't officially released in America until the '70s, when it, surprisingly enough, won an Oscar for Chaplin's score. What took so long? Thanks to his politics and unorthodox personal life, Chaplin was pretty roundly hated by the late '50s. Chaplin plays King Shahdov of Estrovia, on the run when revolution grips his homeland. In New York, despite the occasional indignity, he's treated as royalty until he takes a stand against the commie-hunters, a plot line that hit way too close to home at the time (Chaplin, remember, was ahead of everyone in attacking Hitler when he made The Great Dictator).

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Richard Schickel’s new documentary Charlie chronicles Charles Chaplin’s brilliant career as an actor, writer, director, producer and composer as well as his controversial and much publicised private life - his love affairs and four marriages, his paternity suit scandal and persecution by the FBI, culminating in a self-imposed exile from the United States. With its brilliant observations, rare footage interwoven with scenes from Chaplin’s greatest films and a remarkable series of newly recorded interviews, Charlie is the definitive documentary overview of Chaplin and his Little Tramp. Among the long list of actors, friends and family paying tribute are Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Woody Allen, Robert Downey JR, Milos Forman, Sir Richard Attenborough, Geraldine, Michael and Sydney Chaplin.



Video: MPEG-2, PAL, 5575kbps, 720x576, 4:3, 25,000 fps
Audio: English, AC-3, 2ch 192kbps, 48 kHz
Audio: English, AC-3, 6ch 448kbps, 48 kHz
Audio: French, AC-3, 2ch 192kbps, 48 kHz
Audio: Italian, AC-3, 2ch 192kbps, 48 kHz
Subtitle: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch, Russian
Playtime: ~38h:00:00s