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Time makes strangers of intimate friends and formality covers their real emotions. Charles Chaplin Feature Films Ranked Top 20 Directors

Comedy, tragedy, family, confrontation, struggle, success. Charles Chaplin ’s 1921 masterwork microcosm  The Kid (100 years old today!) has it all. Timeless.  You can find my  Charles Chaplin Feature Films Ranked  list  here . You can find my  Top 20 Directors  list  here .

Charlie Chaplin 's final silent film, The Circus  (1928) (rereleased in 1969 with a new score), was released just a few months after 1927's The Jazz Singer , the first feature-length motion picture with sound. This seems to inform the final shot of The Circus , which ends on a somber but hopeful note. Chaplin's Tramp ends up a part of the titular troupe by accident, as he flees from the police after being mistaken for a pickpocket. The scene where he literally stumbles into the ring is one of the film's highlights (along with the earlier automaton gag, which is one of the best of Chaplin's career). Initially an unwitting comic performer, soon the Tramp finds himself the star of the show. As he interacts with the various players — including falling in love with the show's bareback rider — there are many scenes and gags throughout that cause a smile, a laugh out loud, and tug at the heartstrings in equal measure. Additionally, there are sequences with in-came...

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