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1925 |
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IMPORTANT
SILENT
COMEDY
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| Length: |
142 |
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A poor prospector (Charlie Chaplin, pictured) has poor prospects, but suddenly strikes it rich.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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One of Chaplin's most successful movies. The comic set-pieces (including the dance of the bread-rolls and Charlie eating his boot and laces) show his talents to the full: it's the glutinous sentimentality in between which is hard to take. In 1958, an international jury voted the silent version the second-greatest film of all time (after Eisenstein's Potemkin); but some modern critics, including myself, feel Chaplin is too strained in his attempts to ingratiate himself. The truncated sound version issued in 1942 is to be avoided.
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, Georgia Hale, Mark Swain