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King In New York, A / A Woman Of Paris (1957)
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The eternal clown, Charlie Chaplin believed that the best solution to any problem was to poke fun at it.This, as fascism was the target of The Great Dictator, the ills he saw in 1950s society were the targets at which he shot his satirical arrows in A King In New York.
A King In New York: (1957, 109 min.) The story is about an overthrown monarch who arrives in New York to find that his prime minister has absconded with all his funds.Running up massive bills in his hotel, he is persuaded to make television commercials.Meanwhile, the monarch meets a precocious lad who is being harassed by government agents to betray his parents.Frustrated by a society that pays enormous sums of money to buffoons and hucksters while undermining its own constitiution is eventually too much for the monarch, and he leaves the country, but not before he passes on to the young boy the hope for a better future.
A Woman Of Paris: (1923, 91 min.) The legendary silent movie of manners, mores and morals.The first Charlie Chaplin film in which he did not appear.While critics loved it and it made a star of Adolphe Menjou, audiences looking for The Little Tramp would have nothing to do with it, and it was a flop at the 1923 box office.Both Chaplin and United Artists, for which it was his first film, were greatly disappointed, and the film was withdrawn from circulation and denied to audiences for more than 50 years.
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