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The Real Charlie Chaplin
Directed by
Pete Middleton
,
James Spinney
2021
1h 54m
Documentary
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Biography
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7.3
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A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
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Cast of The Real Charlie Chaplin
Pearl Mackie
Narrator (voice)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Jeff Rawle
Charlie Chaplin 1966
Matthew Wolf
Richard Meryman
Dickie Beau
Roddy McDowall
Anne Rosenfeld
Effie Wisdom
Dominic Marsh
Kevin Brownlow
Paul Leonard
Spokeperson
Eben Young
First Journalist
Haley Flaherty
Third Journalist
Alvah Bessie
Herbert J. Biberman
Geraldine Chaplin
Jane Chaplin
Michael Chaplin
Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Virginia Cherrill
Jackie Coogan
Alistair Cooke
Walt Disney
Adolf Hitler
Mahatma Gandhi
Paulette Goddard
Lita Grey
Mildred Harris
J. Edgar Hoover
Hedda Hopper
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Albert Maltz
Joseph McCarthy
Edna Purviance
Paul Robeson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mack Sennett
Robert Taylor
Dalton Trumbo
Orson Welles
Effie Wisdom
Self
David Olawale Ayinde
Charlie Carter
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Merv Griffin
Oliver Hardy
Al Jolson
Buster Keaton
Stan Laurel
Sarah Lawn
Jack Lemmon
Harold Lloyd
Pete Middleton
Director / Writer / Producer
James Spinney
Director / Writer / Producer
Oliver Kindeberg
Writer
John Battsek
Producer
Mike Brett
Producer
Jo Jo Ellison
Producer
Steve Jamison
Producer
Ben Limberg
Producer
Matt Houghton
Producer
The Real Charlie Chaplin Ratings & Reviews
Vague Visages
Greg Carlson
No doubt each new generation will reexamine and reassess the offscreen Chaplin even as the monumental achievement expressed through his body of work will continue to seduce freshly-stunned viewers.
City AM
Victoria Luxford
The Real Charlie Chaplin delivers on its promise. It doesnt reveal anything new, but through craft and sensitivity reminds us that even eternal heroes have many sides to them.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
A fascinating portrait of a man with many faces/
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It dutifully covers the legendary comics career from the silent era into his reluctant transition into talkies.
World Socialist Web Site
Joanne Laurier
The general attitude of documentary makers Middleton and Spinney toward their subject is sympathetic and appreciative, although certain concessions are made to the current sexual witch-hunting atmosphere.
Decider
John Serba
The Real Charlie Chaplin is a stellar primer for newcomers to the well-trod story of Chaplin, while acolytes may appreciate its restored archival audio and bits of candid home movies.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
It's an imaginative assembly that incorporates not just plentiful archival clips, but hitherto-unheard audio interviews, discreet reenactments with actors, and its own mock silent-movie intertitles.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Ms. Mackie's tone, which exists somewhere between curious and skeptical and never comes close to worshipful, is just right for Chaplin. And for us.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Though not without flaws (like its subject), the film nevertheless offers an engaging profile of a creative genius whose legacy lives on to this day.
What She Said
Anne Brodie
Sensational documentary thoroughly researched with loads of never before seen visuals.
Paste Magazine
Kenneth Lowe
The Real Charlie Chaplin does an admirable job of trying to put the viewer in the mindset of the Gilded Age that gave rise to the performer.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
This introduction to Chaplin shines whenever he performs, displaying his comic genius for doing everything wrong to absolute perfection.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
Chaplin was a charmer and a scoundrel, a sweetheart and a monster, not to mention a celebrity of scandalous appetites. All of that is covered, quite ingeniously, in "The Real Charlie Chaplin."
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
It's very interesting, but it's been done before... Still, it's just marvelous to see all of these clips of Chaplin.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Combines an engaging bonanza of familiar and rarer film clips and other archival material with previously unheard audio and deft dramatic reenactments to form a cradle-to-grave account of the legend's long and winding life.
The Film Stage
Dan Mecca
The Real Charlie Chaplin attempts a delicate dance, quite ambitiously trying to understand both Chaplin the genius filmmaker and his iconic character the Tramp.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
The crystal clear, cleaned up audio recordings of Chaplin and those in his orbit especially stand out.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Well-edited, provocative and insightful.
IndieWire
Christian Blauvelt
"The Real Charlie Chaplin" can serve as a step forward for documentaries about film history and an exemplar for those to come: that you can appreciate art without ignoring the faults of the artist, as so many have tried to do in the past.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
The filmmaking choices all too frequently muddle any potential insight, yet the documentary contains so much good stuff that fans of the subject might be powerless to resist.
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