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Charlie Chaplin - Limelight

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Price:	£9.79	Sold Out Rent

Format:	DVD

Starring:	Nigel Bruce \| Claire Bloom \| Sydney Chaplin \| Buster Keaton \| Norman Lloyd \| Charles Chaplin

Director:	Charlie Chaplin

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.33:1

Languages:	English, French, Italian

Subtitles:	English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Dutch, English for the hearing impaired, Italian for the hearing impaired

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	22 September 2003

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A young dancer wants to know if the white-haired gentleman who saved her life is Calvero, the great music hall comedian. "I was," the gent replies.

Charles Chaplin's Limelight is a glimmering homage to what was, a proud look at a bygone entertainment era and a bittersweet tale of an artist passing the torch to a new generation. Chaplin portrays Calvero (the "Tramp Comedian" per an old theatrical poster in his room), who rescues a distraught ballerina (Claire Bloom) from suicide and mentors her to success. Among the film's comedy highlights is a musical routine that's anything but routine in the hands of legend Chaplin and stone-faced Buster Keaton. The extraordinary score by Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell earned the screen legend his only competitive Oscar.

Special Features

All-new digital transfer from original Chaplin family vault picture and audio el
Interactive Menus.
Scene Access.
Chaplin Today - Limelight.
Documentary by Edgardo Cozarinsky with the participation of Bernardo Bertolucci.
Introduction by David Robinson.
Chaplin's biographer sets the film in its historical and cinematic context.
Deleted Scene.
Cut by Chaplin after the film's premiere, this scene contains a conversation bet
Original Score.
Complete musical soundtrack from Limelight.
Footlights.
Two excerpts from the original novel, read by Charles Chaplin.
The Professor (1919).
In this uncompleted short, Charles Chaplin played the role of a flea-trainer for
Home Movies.
The Chaplin family in the United States in the early 50s. Chaplin's return to t
Photo Gallery.
200 production stills, preparatory sketches, Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smi
Theatrical Trailers.
Scenes from films in the Chaplin Collection.