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Limelight
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G,2hrs 30min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1952
Director:
Charles Chaplin
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce  ...more
Synopsis: London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes his way in, finding the unconscious Terry (Claire Bloom). Carrying the girl to his attic apartment, Calvero revives Terry, then asks why she is so determined to kill herself. The girl explains that she has ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
If not his final film, this is certainly Chaplin's swan song as well as a tribute to the British musical-hall tradition from which he had sprung. At the time of its release, the director had not had a success in over a decade and had been vilified as a Communist by McCarthyite zealots whose pressure tactics would soon result in the revocation of his U.S. passport. All of this is reflected in the melancholy ... Full Review
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Charles Chaplin
Calvero
Claire Bloom
Terry, a Ballet Dancer
Nigel Bruce
Postant, an Impressario
Andre Eglevsky
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