Charlie Chaplin Movies

Charlie Chaplin - A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life (1918) is a silent film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films. Chaplin plays opposite an animal as 'co-star'. 'Scraps' (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, the tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother), also played a small role in this film, and it was the first time the two brothers were on screen together.

Pictures

Charlie Chaplin Series  Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Cast:
Charles Chaplin (Henri Verdoux)
Martha Raye (Annabella Bonheur)
Marilyn Nash (The Girl)

From the DVD cover:
Henri Verdoux's business requires a lot of travel. His business involves wooing wealthy spinsters, winning their confidence and bank accounts, then killing the hapless biddies before moving on to his next conquest.
Charles Chaplin turns his traditionally sunny sensibilities inside out with this sublime balck comedy about a family man who secretly uses murder to support his beloved invalid wife and child. There's little of the immortal Tramp in Verdoux, yet the fastidious dandy is not lacking in comic graces. Most hilarius of all are the always-foiled attempts to dispatch the raucous Annabella (Martha Raye). When this most atypical Chapin film opened, the world was not ready to look death in the face and walk away smiling.
Today, Monsieur Verdoux ranks among Chaplin's best works. It is killer comedy.

Charlie Chaplin Series: The Kid

Here's some info about this film (for more, visit IMDb at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012349/):
"One heaves rocks through windows. The other happens by in the nick of time to offer his services as an expert window repairman. It's a system that works. So does everything else about his beloved Charlie Chaplin classic whose blend of laughs and pathos changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.

For the first time as a film-maker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the adorable ragamuffin (6-year-old Jackie Coogan) who, rescued as a foundling and raised in the School of Hard Knocks by the Trampm, is his inseparable sidekick. Memorable scenes include a lesson in table manners, the bully brawl and the Tramp's angelic dream. The Kid earns its wings."

Charlie Chaplin Series : Modern Times (1936)

Cast: Charles Chaplin (A factory worker); Paulette Goddard (A gamin);

Plot Outline:
The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee-feeding machine may someday make the luch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goaddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck, finding misadventures as a roller-skaitng night watchnman, a singing waiter whose hilarius song is gibberish, a jailbird and more.
In the end, as Tramp and waif walk arm and arm into an insecure future, we know they've found neither bliss nor a paycheck but, more importantly, each other. The times and satire reamin timeless in Modern Times.

Charlie Chaplin Series : The Circus (1928)

At the first-ever Academy Awards ceremony, Charles Chaplin was honoured with a special statuette "for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus." And, it went without saying, for again bringing laughter to packed movies palaces across America.
When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's in typical straits: broke, hyngry, destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the girl. Mistaken for a pickpocket and pursued by a peace officer into a circus tent, the Tramp becomes a star when delighted patrons think his escape from John law is an act. Classic highlights include a frenetic fun-house sequence, the Tramp turning a magic skit into mayhem and his teetering tightrope walk while monkeys cling to his head. This is a comedy without a net!

Cast: Charles Chaplin (A Tramp); Merna Kennedy (A Circus Rider); Allan Garcia (The Circus Proprietor);