Syd Chaplin
3) Limelight
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
4) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Expect to find exploding cars, innocent bystanders smacked in the head with hammers, half-naked underware models chased by cross-dressing villains, auctioneers crawling across airplane wings to retrieve false teeth, memory-impaired lovers, somnambulists, drunken reprobates, deranged acrobats, and the Keystone Kops.