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THE CHAPLIN COLLECTION (2003)
complete 12-volume 19-disc boxset

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Released in September 2003, these editions are what all Chaplin enthusiasts have been waiting for and constitute what has become the definitive Chaplin collection on DVD and video. The film rights were licensed to Martin Karmitz (MK2) by the Chaplin estate, and replace the previous blue-coloured Fox CBS videos as the primary source for Chaplin's classic full-length films in the UK. The quality is the best available and the extras are mind-boggling, excellent and numerous.

DVD Release Date: September 22, 2003

Format: PAL

DVD Size (total): 108 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (total): 724 minutes

Type: Black and White | Color (bonus features)

Aspect Ratio: various, mostly 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): silent | English | French | German | Spanish

Subtitles: optional English 
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STRUCTURE OF THE BOXSET
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so you won't get lost and/or confused

VOLUME equals FILM. One volume can be SINGLE (one disc) or DOUBLE (two discs). If volume has two discs then the first disc contains the main feature (film), and the second disc contains bonus features.

V01_THE_KID:
   THE_KID_D1
   THE_KID_D2
V02_THE_GOLD_RUSH:
   THE_GOLD_RUSH_D1
   THE_GOLD_RUSH_D2
 DVD Description


Contains the following eight films:

    * The Great Dictator
    * Modern Times
    * The Gold Rush
    * Limelight
    * The Kid
    * Monsieur Verdoux
    * The Circus
    * City Lights

Also contains the following bonus features:

    * A Woman of Paris
      The legendary silent movie of manners, mores and morals, A Woman of Paris was the first Charlie Chaplin film in which he did not appear. Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) believes she has been jilted by her artist fiancé Jean (Carl Miller) when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, (Adolphe Menjou) she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bounces back and forth between apparent security and true love.
    * A King in New York
      Charlie Chaplin's penultimate film - featuring his final starring performance - was made in 1957 but wasn't officially released in America until the '70s, when it, surprisingly enough, won an Oscar for Chaplin's score. What took so long? Thanks to his politics and unorthodox personal life, Chaplin was pretty roundly hated by the late '50s. Chaplin plays King Shahdov of Estrovia, on the run when revolution grips his homeland. In New York, despite the occasional indignity, he's treated as royalty until he takes a stand against the commie-hunters, a plot line that hit way too close to home at the time (Chaplin, remember, was ahead of everyone in attacking Hitler when he made The Great Dictator).
    * Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
      Richard Schickel?s new documentary Charlie chronicles Charles Chaplin?s brilliant career as an actor, writer, director, producer and composer as well as his controversial and much publicised private life - his love affairs and four marriages, his paternity suit scandal and persecution by the FBI, culminating in a self-imposed exile from the United States. With its brilliant observations, rare footage interwoven with scenes from Chaplin?s greatest films and a remarkable series of newly recorded interviews, Charlie is the definitive documentary overview of Chaplin and his Little Tramp. Among the long list of actors, friends and family paying tribute are Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Woody Allen, Robert Downey JR, Milos Forman, Sir Richard Attenborough, Geraldine, Michael and Sydney Chaplin.

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