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Charles Chaplin (writer)
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1 September 1959 (UK)
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Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film...
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three classic comedies nearly ruined in retrospect
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(in credits order) | Charles Chaplin | ... | Narrator / Various (archive footage) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Albert Austin | ... | Various (archive footage) |
| Henry Bergman | ... | Various (archive footage) |
 | Syd Chaplin | ... | Various (archive footage) |
 | Edna Purviance | ... | Various (archive footage) |
| Mack Swain | ... | Various (archive footage) |
| Loyal Underwood | ... | Various (archive footage) |
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| Charles Chaplin | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Charles Chaplin | writer | |
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| Charles Chaplin | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Charles Chaplin | |||
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| Paul Davies | |||
| Derek Parsons | |||
Sound Department | |||
| Bob Jones | .... | sound recordist | |
| Wally Milner | .... | sound recordist | |
| J.J.Y. Scarlett | .... | sound recordist | |
| Eric Stockl | .... | sound recordist | |
Music Department | |||
| Eric James | .... | music arranger | |
| Eric Rogers | .... | conductor | |
| Eric Spear | .... | music arranger | |
Other crew | |||
| Jerome Epstein | .... | assistant: Mr. Chaplin (uncredited) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- United Artists (1959) (USA) (theatrical)
- Playhouse Home Video (1985) (USA) (VHS)
- Key Video (1989) (USA) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- Park Circus (2010) (UK) (DVD)
- Roy Export Company
- Soul media (2011) (Denmark) (all media)
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UK:128 min | USA:119 min
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To achieve the feel of a modern print, Charles Chaplin stretch-printed the footage, which slowed it down to sound speed so music could be added properly.See more »
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Edited from The Pilgrim (1923)See more »
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I'm Bound for TexasSee more »
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Three of Charlie Chaplin's classic short features – 'A Dog's Life', 'Shoulder Arms', and 'The Pilgrim' – are packaged here into an essential collection, but with a serious flaw: when he compiled the review in 1958 Chaplin hung a cloud around the silver lining of his own timeless pantomime technique by carelessly 'updating' each selection for contemporary audiences with crude step-printing and indiscriminate music scoring. The tampering severely crippled his comic rhythm, but with a little mental arithmetic it's still possible to laugh loud and long. The weakest of the three films is the enormously popular World War One spoof 'Shoulder Arms', which enlisted the Little Tramp as a cheerleader for the war effort, but the other two are minor masterpieces of comic invention, highlighted by more than one classic, much imitated routine. The pathos that would later enrich Chaplin's later features is all but absent, leaving only pure, unadulterated comedy.