The Chaplin Revue - Restored Edition (2010)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 181 mins + 176 mins | 7,45 Gb + 7,63 Gb
Musical Score in DD 5.1 and DD 2.0 with English intertitles
Genre: Comedy | Studio: Park Circus
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 181 mins + 176 mins | 7,45 Gb + 7,63 Gb
Musical Score in DD 5.1 and DD 2.0 with English intertitles
Genre: Comedy | Studio: Park Circus
Three classic silent comedies from Charles Chaplin - A Dog's Life (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918) and The Pilgrim (1923) - are here strung together to form a single feature length film with new music, narration and connecting material.
In A Dog's Life, The Tramp and his dog companion try to survive in the city. Shoulder Arms features Chaplin as a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero, and in The Pilgrim, he becomes the new minister for the town of Devil's Gulch by mistake. This DVD edition features a restored version of the film along with the following extras: Introduction by David Robinson, Deleted scenes from Shoulder Arms and Sunnyside, A visit to the Chaplin studios and Shorts: A Dogs Life, Shoulder Arms, The Pilgrim, Sunnyside, A Day’s Pleasure, The Idle Class and Pay Day.
By the late 1950s, Charles Chaplin was an aged exile living in Switzerland. The wounds caused by the Cold War frenzy in the U.S., and the resulting backlash against Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, and A King in New York, were not forgotten. Nonetheless, Chaplin had at last found durable personal happiness in his long (for him) marriage to Oona O'Neill. Buoyed by his familial bliss, the old movie icon considered the possibility of making another film featuring his famous Tramp. Just as his last Tramp feature a generation earlier, 1936's Modern Times, placed the character in a context suitable for commenting on social issues of the day (and the Tramp-like barber jabbed fascism and Hitler in The Great Dictator), Chaplin mulled over the possibility of bringing the Tramp into the Atomic Age. He was outspoken against The Bomb, and no doubt such a film would have provided a sounding board for his thoughts on the matter. Critic James Agee, a passionate Chaplin devotee, even worked on a script that set the Tramp in a New York City obliterated by a nuclear holocaust. Chaplin wisely abandoned the notion, and Agee never managed to make his script work. But having an entire generation grow up with no first-hand knowledge of the Little Tramp was a flaw that could be corrected.
In 1959 he released a feature-length omnibus film, The Chaplin Revue, which compiled three of the seven shorts Chaplin made for First National between 1918 and 1923 — A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, and The Pilgrim. In addition to editing and re-assembling the shorts, he composed a full-length musical score and added a narrated prologue cut from behind-the-scenes material shot in 1918. His new introduction to Shoulder Arms added reality footage from World War I, and further established the historical perpective by pointing out that it's set in a time before the atom bomb. (Wonder what Chaplin made of Dr. Strangelove?) For The Pilgrim he composed a country pastiche song, "Bound for Texas," recorded by the popular singer Matt Monro, who went on to sing title themes for From Russia With Love, Born Free, and other films.
The Chaplin Collection's two-disc presentation of The Chaplin Revue gives us the complete 1959 compilation. Then on Disc Two we find the rest of Chaplin's First National films. The total package offers seven of Chaplin's most ambitious and sophisticated shorts, the last he made before moving full-time into his feature-length classics.
Disc 1:
1. Feature (90 min).
2. Introduction (5 min).
3. Shoulders Arms (46 min).
4. A Dogs Life (40 min).
Disc 2:
1. The Pilgrim (59 min).
2. Sunnyside (32 min).
3. A Day's Pleasure (25 min).
4. The Idle Class (32 min).
5. Pay Day (28 min).
6. Photo Gallery.
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