Charlie Chaplin - The Little Tramp - The (DVD)

Charles Chaplin was cinema’s first ‘superstar.’ Widely hailed as a comic genius, he revolutionized film comedy. Born in London and trained in British music halls, Chaplin immigrated to America and entered motion pictures, where he developed his screen persona as the luckless ‘Little Tramp’ character. Soon he was directing his own films, and he refined movie comedy from pie-in-the-face broad slapstick to humorous portrayals of the human condition, combining hilarity, grace and pathos. In this remarkable compilation are the comedy shorts made during the most productive years of Chaplin’s career, from 1914, when he was first starting out as an unknown comic at Keystone Studios to the last short films he made in 1921, before working exclusively on features. Here are the shorts that made him famous and his ‘Little Tramp’ character immortal; Easy Street, The Vagabond, The Pawnshop, The Rounders, The Rink, plus many, many more! Bonus material includes rare ‘Charlie Chaplin’ cartoons and an ultra-rare promotional film showing Chaplin out of make-up— and being waited on by theone and only Buster Keaton!