CHARLIE CHAPLIN SHORT COMEDY CLASSICS: THE COMPLETE RESTORED ESSANAY & MUTUAL COLLECTION

Details

• Genre: Comedy; Romance
• Plot: In just three years Charlie Chaplin ascended from working in Mack Sennett's Keystone comedies for $150 a week to the highest-paid and best-loved entertainer in history, earning $670,000 for the twelve smashing films he made for the Mutual Company. This collection includes all 28 of the films in which cinema's greatest comedian evolved from the gag comedian of HIS NEW JOB to the brilliant pantomimist of A NIGHT OUT, THE CHAMPION, THE TRAMP and SHANGHAIED to the satirist of POLICE and the maker of comic masterpieces such as THE IMMIGRANT, EASY STREET, THE ADVENTURER, THE CURE, THE PAWN SHOP, ONE A.M. and THE RINK. As historian Lewis Jacobs observed, 'It was the Chaplin of these pictures who became the beloved idol of millions throughout the world.'; ; This edition is made from the finest vintage film elements gathered in a nine-year international search or obtained with chain of title from the original producers. Each comedy is digitally mastered, speed-corrected and fitted with new music by Eric James (Chaplin's musical associate for twenty years), Michael D. Mortilla or Robert Israel, all outstanding practitioners of authentic silent film accompaniment. The pleasures of this unique collection shame all cheap editions of these same films from other publishers.
• Runtime: 15:51
• Media Format: Movie