At 95 minutes, “The Gold Rush” was the longest comedy film to date. It riffs on, of all tragic things, the Donner Party, ...

Charlie Chaplin might be the master of silent comedy, but this beloved French filmmaker is the closest we ever came to having a Chaplin replacement.

2. “Swing Little Girl” (1928) Though the song was recorded by Chaplin 40 years after the release of the film, it added to an integral scene in his 1928 hit The Circus. In 1969, Chapin composed ...

Early in the film, Marilyn meets Charlie "Cass" Chaplin Jr. (Xavier Samuel) and Eddy G. Robinson Jr. (Evan Williams) in an acting class, and they go home together to have a threesome.

Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and morality as they were applied—namely, against the downtrodden, the ...