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Limelight / produced, written and directed by Charles Chaplin.
LIBRA DVD 026 323 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 756.
- Criterion collection ; 756
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comedians--Drama.
- Comedians.
- Ballet dancers--Drama.
- Ballet dancers.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Drama.
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.).
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + $e 1 booklet.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Criterion collection.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
- System Details:
- DVD ; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital optical mono. Dolby Digital
- fullscreen (1.37:1)
- DVD-video NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Melissa Hayden.
- Credits:
- Composer, Charles Chaplin ; director of photography, Karl Struss ; editor, Joe Inge.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- DVD release of the 1952 motion picture.
- Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Chaplin's "Limelight": Its evolution and intimacey, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinso; New interviews with actors; Chaplin today: "Limelight," a 2002 documentary on the film; Outtake from the film; Archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights; Two short films by Chaplin; Trailers; Plus: an essay by critic Peter von Bagh.
- ISBN:
- 9781604659948
- 1604659947
- OCLC:
- 906617543
- Publisher Number:
- 715515146319
- CC2482DDVD The Criterion Collection
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