Limelight
Summary:
London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes his way in, finding the unconscious Terry (Claire Bloom). Carrying the girl to his atti... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Charles Chaplin - (Calvero)
Claire Bloom - (Terry, a Ballet Dancer)
Nigel Bruce - (Postant, an Impressario)
Sydney Chaplin - (Neville)
Andre Eglevsky - (Harlequin)
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Review:
If not his final film, this is certainly Chaplin's swan song as well as a tribute to the British musical-hall tradition from which he had sprung. At the time of its release, the director had not had a success in over a decade and had been vilified as a Communist by McCarthyite zealots whose pressure tactics would soon result in the revocation... Continue >>
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