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Information
- Year
- 1952
- Runtime
- 137 min.
- Director
- Charles Chaplin
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Music
- Rating *
- 8.1
- Votes *
- 12,180
- Checks
- 3,559
- Favs
- 404
- Dislikes
- 24
- Favs/checks
- 11.4% (1:9)
- Favs/dislikes
- 17:1
Top comments
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mrjeffwright
4 years 4 months agoquote:Claire Bloom: "I thought you hated the theatre."
Chaplin: "I do. I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins." -
AndrewB
5 years 7 months agoquote:That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. -
justwannaboogie
@K.
A rumor has persisted, fueled by the intense rivalry among fans of the two comics, that Keaton gave such a superior performance that Chaplin jealously cut his scenes so he would not be upstaged by his rival. A close associate of Chaplin claimed that Chaplin not only did not feel threatened by Keaton's performance, but also heavily edited his own footage of the duet while enhancing Keaton's. According to Keaton's biographer Rudi Blesh, Chaplin eased his notoriously rigid directorial style to give Keaton free rein to invent his own comic business during this sequence.
Source: Keaton, Eleanor and Jeffrey Vance. Buster Keaton Remembered. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001, pg. 203 ISBN 0-8109-4227-5. 5 years 10 months ago
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This movie ranks #914 in The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection
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