"Actor: Charlie Chaplin"

• The Circus - Charlie Chaplin DVD | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (48.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's broke and hungry. Mistaken for a pickpocket and pursued by a police officer into a circus tent, the Tramp becomes a star when delighted patrons think his escape from the law is an act. Highlights include a frenetic fun-house seqeunce, the Tramp turning a magical skit into mayhem and his teetering tighrope walk while monkeys cling to his head.

• The Charlie Chaplin Collection | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Charlie Chaplin was the first true superstar to emerge from the fledgling movie industry with his status being sufficient to ensure he controlled every aspect of his films - he wrote the script selected the cast and directed the action. He did all these tasks rather well as is evidenced by some of the classics to be found in this three DVD collection. Easy Street is perhaps his best known film where his bumbling police officer manages to bring order but equally worthy of attention are A Night In The Show and His New Job.

• The Great Dictator | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (-21.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania and a Jewish Barber. The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.

• The Circus (Chaplin Collection) | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (146.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recognising his genius Charles Chaplin won a special Academy Award for acting writing producing and directing The Circus. In this silent comedy The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top The Tramp is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police and immediately gets hired by the ringmaster.

• Killer Barbys | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• A King In New York - Charlie Chaplin DVD | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

   The comedy king gives American pop culture and politics the royal treatment in the satiric penultimate Chaplin film 'A King in New York'. Advertising movies TV rock music celebrity and more are in Chaplin's comic sights as he portrays a deposed European monarch who becomes a U.S. media sensation.

• Vintage Comedy Vol.1 | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (-6.50%)   |  RRP £18.99

  W.C. Fields Six classic short films:The Pool Shark; The Golf Specialist; The Dentist; The Fatal Glass of Beer; The Pharmacist; The Barber Shop Harold Lloyd Here he stars in one classic film Haunted Spooks with additional films featuring Mack Sennett and Our Gang. Charlie Chaplin 6 classic short films: Kid Auto Races At Venice; The Rival Mashers A Night Out; Cruel Cruel Love; Film Johnny; Triple Trouble

• Chaplin Classics Vol 1 | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £71.99

  Modern Times: In this delightfully madcap comedy Chaplin plays a hapless factory worker who cracks under the strain of his job and runs amok. Unemployed on the streets of Depression America he joins forces with a young woman fleeing the childcare authorities and they embark on a misadventure-filled search for happiness. The Great Dictator: Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double a poor Jewish barber who one day is mistaken for Hynkel and comic catastrophes ensue! Gold Rush: The Tramp goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds a whole lot more! Limelight: Fading comedian Calvero (Chaplin) and suicidally despondent ballet dancer Thereza (Bloom) look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives... 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.

• Limelight - Charlie Chaplin Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £9.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (104.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Limelight tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's efforts to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of this moving Academy Award-winning film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival Buster Keaton.

• The Chaplin Revue - Charlie Chaplin DVD | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Contains seven Charlie Chaplin movies made between 1918 and 1923. Included are  'Shoulder Arms' (1918) - his popular portrayal of World War I trench life the charming and hilarious views of family life and romance in 'A Dog's Life' (1918) and lampooning small-town hypocrisy in The Pilgrim' (1923)

• Vampire Killer Barbys | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  The Killer Barbys are a touring rock band with a problem. They're stranded in the middle of nowhere and they need to find someone willing to put them up for the night. They end up at the mansion of Countess Von Fledermaus an ancient woman shrouded in evil. She needs the fresh blood of young men to regain her lost youth and the Killer Barbys are on the menu!

• Charlie Chaplin Film Reel Collection | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £7.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (100.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Collection of classic silent films and shorts starring the all-round talent of Charlie Chaplin. Throughout his career spanning more than 75 years Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited, composed the music for and starred in most of his films, making a household name for himself as a screen icon. Actors who starred alongside Chaplin include Edna Purviance, John T. Dillon and Billy Armstrong. The films are: 'By the Sea' (1915), 'Work' (1915), 'A Woman' (1915), 'The Bank' (1915), 'Shanghaied' (1915), 'The Rink' (1916), 'Easy Street' (1917), 'The Cure' (1917), 'The Immigrant' (1917), 'Triple Trouble' (1918), 'Shoulder Arms' (1918) , 'The Bond' (1918), 'A Burlesque On Carmen' (1915), 'The Fireman' (1916), 'The Vagabond' (1916), 'One AM' (1916), 'The Count' (1916), 'The Pawnshop' (1916), 'Behind the Screen' (1916), 'Police' (1916), 'A Night in the Show' (1915), 'The Floorwalker' (1916), 'New Janitor' (1914), 'The Musical Tramp' (1915), 'His New Job' (1915), 'Night Out' (1915), 'The Champion' (1915), 'Caught in a Cabaret' (1914), 'Knock Out' (1914), 'Laffin' Gas' (1914), 'Face On the Bar Room Floor' (1914), 'The Good for Nothing' (1914), 'The Masquerader' (1914), 'Between Showers' (1914), 'A Day's Pleasure' (1919), 'Cruel Cruel Love' (1914) and 'The Fatal Mallet' (1914).

• When Comedy Was King | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Comedy Was King

• 100 Years Of Comedy | DVD | (01/09/2000) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With the centennial of the invention of Motion Pictures comes a program with all the laughs that can be crammed into 100 minutes of non-stop merriment. Journey on a rip-roaring trip through the world of cinema comedy with the funniest moments in the history of Hollywood from the slapstick of the silents through the screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s to the hi-jinks of Hollywood's most recent comedies. All the great movie comics are here from the great comic actors of the past to the laughmakers of today. Here are profiles of favorite comedy stars plus revealing looks at some of the 'forgotton' comics of the silent and talkie era. From past greats such as Laurel & Hardy The Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton through to modern day stars as Eddie Murphy Leslie Nielsen and Jim Carrey. Enjoy rare early movie comedy behind the scenes footage foreign film fun mockumentaries musical comedies and the unintentional hilarity of movies like Reefer Madness. 100 stars provide hundreds of laughs for a century's worth of a fun-filled film feast. This is one comedy kaleidoscope you'll watch again and again!

• Charlie Chaplin Marathon - The Rink, The Immigrant, Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Vagabond | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  “The Rink”: Chaplin plays a waiter who spends his time at the skating rink where his skill and grace lead to possible romance and unfortunate mishaps. “The Immigrant”: En-route by boat immigrant Chaplin tries to make the best of the rough seas. He befriends a woman and appoints himself her protector. “Tillie’s Punctured Romance”: This is the first feature-length comedy ever made and features Chaplin as a con artist who talks Marie Dressler an innocent lass into taking her dad’s savings and running off to the city with him. “The Vagabond”: This is the story of The Little Tramp a pathetic fiddler that makes a scanty living and rescues damsels in distress. One of the first films directed by Charlie Chaplin.

• The Kid | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Tramp and an abandoned child (6 year old Jackie Coogan) triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.

• The Tramp | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £16.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-6.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Including: The Tramp Shanghaied The Fireman The Immigrant and The Champion.

• Charlie Chaplin Collection 1 | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Charlie Chaplin Collection 1 contains: Kid Ayto Races In Venice: Charlie dressed as a tramp for the first time goes to a baby-cart race in Venice California. He causes a great deal of trouble and confusion both on off the track (getting in the way of the cameraman) and on (interfering with the race). He succeeds in irritating both the participants and the public. Cruel Cruel Love: A rich lord loves a girl. A maid who has seen the two accosts the lord in a park and embraces him. This is seen by the girl who calls off their relationship. The lord decides to commit suicide but the butler replaces the poison with water. The girl her love now restored rushes to what she thinks is the lord's deathbed. A Film Johnnie: Charlie goes to the movie and falls in love with a girl on the screen. He goes to Keystone Studios to find her. He disrupts the shooting of a film and a fire breaks out. Charlie is blamed gets squirted with a firehose and is shoved by the female star. A Night Out: After a visit to a pub Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife. The Rival Mashers (AKA Those Love Pangs): Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall different girls though Charlie's has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide is talked out of it by a policeman and later throws his girl's friend into the lake. Frightened the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight Charlie is tossed from the screen.

• Hollywood Comedy Collection - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Burns And Allen Show: This disc contains two episodes from the first season 'The Wedding' and 'The Tax Assessor' they reflect the transition of Burns and Allen from burlesque through radio to television. Recorded in front of a live audience George Burns often interrupting a sketch to do a stand up routine smoking that eternal cigar. Added to this is the surreal humour and manic confusion created by his terminally naive partner Gracie Allen. Abbott And Costello Live:

• Comedy Greats | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A "two-plus-one" package from Siren, Comedy Greats features classics from the two greatest silent-screen comics, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, plus a rather dreary effort from Danny Kaye. Never the most scintillating of comedians, Kaye's personable talents are thinly spread in 1949's The Inspector General. Distantly(!) based on a short story by Russian satirist Nikolay Gogol, this tale of mistaken identity enables Kaye to indulge in obvious wisecracks and not-so-smart dialogue. Sylvia Fine's songs are mildly amusing, and Henry Koster draws capable support from Walter Slezak and Elsa Lanchester, but it's a long haul. When he made Tilli's Punctured Romance in 1914, Charles Chaplin had yet to perfect the "little man" routine which made him the most popular 1920s screen star. His loveable rogue is well displayed opposite Marie Dressler's formidable country maid, whose unexpected windfall becomes the real object of his desire. Mabel Normand contributes an attractively period chic, and if, in the hands of Mack Sennett, the humour tends to fall back on music-hall slapstick, the historical significance of the film is undoubted. Yet it's Buster Keaton's 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr which comes out on top here. Keaton is perfectly cast as the put upon student, whose bravery saves both his father and his steamboat-owning rival, and wins the hand of the latter's daughter. Solid support comes from Ernest Torrence and the winsome Marion Byron, with Charles Riesner getting maximum drama from the cyclone sequence, but it's Keaton's soulful expression and breathtaking stuntwork which are the most potent reminders of a talent only later to receive its due. On the DVD: Comedy Greats is acceptably remastered, with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film, and decently packaged, this is worth acquiring--even though Keaton's film is the only one you're likely return to often. --Richard Whitehouse