A King in New York: The Chaplin Collection (1957)

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Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.

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"One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for using atomic power to create a utopia.

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At a dinner party, some of which is televised live (unbeknownst to him), he reveals he's had some experience in the theater. He's approached to do TV commercials but doesn't like the idea. Later, he does make a few commercials in order to get some money.

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Invited to speak at a progressive school, he meets Rupert Macabee (Michael Chaplin), editor of the school paper, a ten-year-old historian who gives him a stern anarchist lecture. Although Rupert himself says he distrusts all forms of government, his parents are communists. Shahdov is subsequently suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of Joseph McCarthy's hearings. He is cleared of all charges and decides to join his estranged queen in Paris for a reconciliation. But Rupert's parents are jailed, and authorities force the child to reveal the names of his parents' friends.

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Grieving and guilt-ridden, he is presented to King Shahdov as a "patriot". Shahdov reassures him that the anti-communist scare is a lot of nonsense, and invites him to come to Europe with his parents for a visit. In a cataclysmic scene, Shadov accidentally directs a strong stream of water from a fire hose at the members of "House Committee on Un-American Activities" HUAC, who scatter in panic - a bit of wish fulfilment, considering Chaplin's own bitter experience with that body.

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In addition to its condemnation of HUAC's methods, the film takes witty potshots at American commercialism, popular music and film. A dinner party scene includes a number of satirical portrayals of actors and public figures of the period, including Sophie Tucker; and the King attends a film preview for Man or Woman? (Glen or Glenda).

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A King in New York is a 1957 British comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society. The film was produced in Europe after Chaplin's exile from the US in 1952. It did not open in the United States until 1973.

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Disc One: Special features

• Introduction (5:19) — Biographer David Robinson (Chaplin: His Life and Art) surveys Chaplin's political and personal circumstances that led to A King in New York. The closing suggestion that Michael Chaplin's grating performance can be ranked anywhere near Jackie Coogan's in The Kid can be written off as familial prejudice.

• Chaplin Today - A King in New York (25:31) — In this documentary by Jerome de Missolz, indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch offers a spirited appraisal and defense of the film's statements and objectives. Newsreel footage and plenty of well-researched background take a deeper look at the politics that shook Chaplin and the FBI's use of Chaplin as a convenient target. Michael Chaplin, now nearing 60, recalls the experience of working closely with his "imperfect" father while shooting A King in New York.

• Outtakes — Fourteen brief scraps and alternate opening titles (selected individually), most cut when Chaplin authorized the film's reissue in the 1970s.

• Mandolin Serenade (2:41) — This stagy promo short made for the film's U.K. run "shows" Chaplin directing a few bars from his film score. The overblown narration makes it all a bit embarrassing, really.

• Trailers (8:51) — The Dutch, German, and U.S. (belated release) trailers. The German version is single-handedly the most annoying trailer anywhere within The Chaplin Collection.

• Photo Gallery — (6:13) A silent video slide-show with almost one hundred production photos.

• Film Posters — A click-through collection of 15 posters for A King in New York from several countries through the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.

• The Chaplin Collection (10:42) — This video montage presents scenes from all eleven films in both volumes of The Chaplin Collection. It's a nice touch that they're arranged in chronological order of their original theatrical runs.

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