"Actor: Charlie Chaplin"

• Charlie Chaplin Collection 3 | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £9.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (0.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Including A Woman Mother Father and Daughter go to the park. The women dose off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman shaving his moustache. Both men fall for Charlie. His Regeneration A rough criminal gets into an argument over a girl in a dance hall. The argument turns into a fight and the criminal is shot. As everyone else looks on a young woman comes to his aid and it turns out that he is not seriously wounded. He still remembers the woman who helped him when later he is committing a burglary and gets a surprise that will change his life The Bank Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fianc'' the cashier a birthday present. Charlie thinks To Charles with Love is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving he manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream. Shanghaied A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie a tramp in love with the owner's daughter is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 4 | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A collection of four Charlie Chaplin shorts. A Woman (1915): A family outing in a park leads to both mother and daughter falling for Charlie. The Bank (1915): Charlie the janitor mistakenly opens a birthday present intended for a cashier from his fiancee Edna. One AM (1916): A drunken Charlie arrives home late and has considerable trouble getting into his home. The Adventurer (1917): Escaped convict Charlie becomes a hero when he rescues two drowing wo

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 3 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 3 contains 4 classic Charlie Chaplin movies: The Floorwalker (1916): After causing all kinds of havoc on the sales floor Charlie runs into the store inspector who has just knocked out the manager and robbed the safe. The Rink (1916):Waiter Charlie decides to spend his lunch hour at the local roller skating rink where he rescues Edna from the unwelcome advances of Mr Stout. Easy Street (1917):Charlie is a policeman given the roughest of beats to p

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £3.03   |  Saving you £-1.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Charlie Chaplin. The name alone evokes the image of a character with a brush-like moustache in a derby oversized trousers floppy shoes and a cane. He was and is perhaps still the most memorable character in film history. He was ""The Tramp"". The story of Charlie Chaplin's rise to fame is a remarkable one. Born in South London on April 16 1889 his childhood was one of poverty insecurity and near destitution. Having a mother who suffered from mental illness and a father who dese

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 5 | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-3.39 (-170.40%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Includes the following:The Immigrant:Would-be immigrant Charlie endures a torrid journey to the USA. When he wins a card game he tries to help a robbery victim by putting some of the money in her bag but on retrieving a little for himself is accused of being a thief.The Tramp:Tramp Charlie rescues a farmer's daughter from the unwelcome attentions of a hobo and also deals with two other hobos who arrive looking for trouble. Charlie is taken home in gratitude but fails in his attempt to become a farmhand.The Pawnshop:Charlie is a pawnshop assistant trying to compete with another assistant deal with his boss and several customers one of whom turns out to be a thief before he can finally save the day.The Vagabond:After collecting donations for German street musicians Charlie heads for the country where he rescues a girl from a band of gypsies. A painting of the girl is seen by her wealthy mother and soon the mother and the artist are involved in looking for the girl.

• Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Vol. 1 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following a year's work at the Essanay Studios Charlie Chaplin moved to the Mutual Studios in February 1916 to make twelve films and was given the freedom and resources to shoot his comedies without interference. Includes: Behind The Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer. The music for each film has been specially composed and newly recorded for this DVD release by Carl Davis.

• Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 2 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The films Charlie Chaplin made at the Essanay Studios in 1915 show some of cinema's greatest comedian's most individual work. As director as well as star he was able to make films around his own performance style rather than force himself into Max Sennett's frenzied 'beystone comedy' mode. Despite their huge importance and comic brilliance these films have rarely been seen in recent decades mostly because of poor or incomplete prints. This edition of all sixteen films in two volumes

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  The films Charlie Chaplin made at the Essanay Studios in 1915 show some of cinema's greatest comedian's most individual work. As director as well as star he was able to make films around his own performance style rather than force himself into Mack Sennett's frenzied 'beystone comedy' mode. Despite their huge importance and comic brilliance these films have rarely been seen in recent decades mostly because of poor or incomplete prints. This edition of all sixteen films in two volume

• Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Vol. 2 | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £7.83   |  Saving you £12.16 (60.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following a year's work at the Essanay Studios Charlie Chaplin moved to the Mutual Studios in February 1916 to make twelve films and was given the freedom and resources to shoot his comedies without interference. Volume two features the six remaining films made under Mutual studios. Includes: ; The Floorwalker (1916) / The Fireman (1916) / The Vagabond(1917) / One A.M (1916) / The Count (1916) / The Pawnshop (1916)

• Charlie Chaplin - Collection Volume 6 | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £6.46   |  Saving you £-4.47 (-224.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Charlie Chaplin - Collection Vol. 6

• Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Great Dictator was Charles Chaplin's first fully talking picture, a scathing comic assault on Adolf Hitler, which these days will mostly play like brilliant slapstick. But in 1940, with America still neutral, it was the boldest anti-Nazi statement Hollywood had then put on screen. The thin plot doesn't matter, being just a peg for writer-director Chaplin's almost consistently inventive and hilarious set-pieces featuring himself in the duel roles of Adenoid Hynkel, the ludicrous anti-Semitic Dictator of Tomania, and an innocent Jewish barber who happens to be a Tomanian hero of the Great War. In the latter role he affectionately spins a variation on his beloved Tramp character while briefly romancing a lacklustre Paulette Goddard, costar of his equally satirical Modern Times (1936). Yet it's as Hynkel/Hitler that Chaplin really shines, from a side-splitting opening speech to some Duck Soup-style madness with rival leader Napaloni, played with flamboyant swagger by Jack Oakie. While the finale, a clarion call for a brave new world united by science and technological progress that seems to emanate straight from 1936's Things to Come, may jar, the comedic approach to a deadly serious subject has proved lastingly influential, from Dr Strangelove (1964) to Life is Beautiful (1997). On the DVD The Great Dictator is presented in the original 4:3 black and white with strong, clear mono sound and a picture so sharp and detailed that, bar a few very minor instances of damage, the film could have been shot yesterday. Also included are French and Italian dubbed versions and an English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack, which is best avoided. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc Two begins with a superb 55-minute documentary, directed by film historian Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft, narrated by Kenneth Branagh and coproduced by the BBC. The Tramp and the Dictator goes seriously in-depth to explore the parallels between the world's most loved and hated men, drawing on many interviews and remarkable rare footage, including colour sequences of the making of The Great Dictator shot by Chaplin's brother, Sydney. Next comes the complete 25 minutes of that home-movie footage, including coverage of the original abandoned ending, and a seven-minute deleted scene from Sunnyside (1918), which inspired the barber scene. Finally there is a poster gallery and a scene from Monsieur Verdoux (1947) concerning the rise of Hitler and fascism. Marvellous stuff, though a commentary could have added considerably to the already remarkable silent colour material. --Gary S Dalkin

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 2 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A Jitney Elopement: Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha whilst he wants to marry Charlie. Charlie impersonates the Count at a dinner but is found out when the real Count turns up and thrown out.Burlesque On Carmen: A parody of both the opera and earlier film version in which Charlie plays Spanish officer Darn Hosiery who is led astray by gypsy girl Carmen (Edna Purvience).A Night In The Show: Mr Pest (Charlie Chaplin) has to try several seats in the

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  ONCE AGAIN THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGHS... During the last days of the First World War a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel who accidentally looks very similar to the barber has laid his merciless grip on the country and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile Dictator Hynkel develops big plans he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni Dictator of Bacteria who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile Schultz and the barber manage to escape guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania who listen eagerly on the radio.

• Charlie Chaplin - Limelight | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One of Charlie Chaplin's most personal projects was 1952's Limelight for which he composed the unforgettably haunting score and which featured his son Sydney in a major supporting role. The result is a bittersweet masterwork, a May-September romance between an ascendant ballerina (Claire Bloom in only her second film) and a fading clown. Script and performances are superb, and though entirely studio-made, with London recreated in America, Chaplin's great visual sensibility ensures the production never feels stage-bound. The story harks back to the glory years of Music Hall and in fictionalised form draws heavily on Chaplin's experiences as recounted in his superb autobiography. More affectionate and philosophical than the comparable Sunset Boulevard (1950), the story movingly echoes A Star is Born (1937) and The Red Shoes (1948), while one brilliant touch is the inclusion of Chaplin's fellow "silent" era star, Buster Keaton as his stage partner. Comedy is not forgotten, but this is at heart a moving reflection on the passage of time, a deeply autobiographical work in which the never seen background of the Great War is an ironic contrast to Chaplin's celebration of youth, theatre, music, love and life itself. On the DVD: Limelight is presented in the original 4:3 black and white with excellent mono sound and a picture which apart from a little unobtrusive grain is absolutely immaculate. Also included are French and Italian-dubbed versions and an English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack, which simply adds unnecessary spatial processing to the mono original. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc 2 features a very useful six-minute introduction by David Robinson and an excellent 26-minute new documentary featuring contributions from Claire Bloom, Sydney Chaplin and Bernardo Bertolucci. One remarkable extra is Chaplin's entire Oscar-winning 58-minute score available as 36 separate musical cues in excellent mono. There is a four-minute scene that was included in the original release of the film and later cut, an unfinished short from 1919, The Professor (6 min), which introduces the flea circus idea developed in Limelight, as well as English and Italian trailers. Also included is a nine-section photo gallery and selection of posters, as well as two extracts from Chaplin reading Footlights, the unpublished novel upon which he based the film. Finally, 15 minutes of colour home movies show the star with his family in 1950 and more remarkably, revisiting the London of his youth in 1959. --Gary S Dalkin

• Charlie Chaplin - A Dog's Life/The Kid | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Kid was director Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film and is considered one of his best. It co-stars five year-old Jackie Coogan whom Chaplin discovered performing with his father on a Los Angeles vaudeville stage. He was a natural for the screen and captivated movie audiences as quickly as he had Chaplin. The story is about a child abandoned by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance) who hopes to offer him a better life by leaving him in a limousine. Unfortunately the limo is stolen and the burglars dump the baby into an alley where he is discovered by The Little Tramp. After trying unsuccessfully to give him to a variety of more suitable parents The Little Tramp is at last obliged to keep him. He teaches The Kid Everything he knows from lessons of the street to polite table manners and fights fiercely to keep him through one Chaplinesque misadventure after another. At the bittersweet end The Little Tramp is welcomed into the home of the Kid's mother who has recently learned the child's identity and taken him home with her. Also Includes A Dog's Life

• Charlie Chaplin - Vol. 10 | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (-6.80%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Featuring the Chaplin shorts: The Pawn Shop (1916) / The Floorwalker (1916) / The Rink (1916) / The Count (1916)