Charlie Chaplin

in VHS & Print

The Films of Charlie Chaplin in VHS

Except where noted, Chaplin is the writer and director of all the movies he starred in. Films made before 1936 are silent with musical score; all titles after 1936 have synchronized sound.

A Burlesque on Carmen. Chaplin's spoof also features Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin and Wesley Ruggles. 1916. 62 min. VH1/BURL-0001.

Chaplin. Robert Downey, Jr. plays the cinematic genius in a biographical talkie by Richard Attenborough. 1992. 135 min. VH1/CHAP-0003.

Chaplin Essanay Book I. Charlie rescues a girl from thieves in The Tramp and takes up boxing in The Champion. 1915. 51 min. VH2/CHAP-0001.

The Chaplin Mutuals. The twelve shorts on these three tapes are arguably Charlie Chaplin's greatest achievement: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street, The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, Behind the Screen, One A.M., The Pawn Shop, The Floorwalker, The Rink. 1916-1917. 298 min. VH2/CHAP-0008 through -0010.

The Chaplin Revue. Charlie saves a mutt in A Dog's Life, goes to war in Shoulder Arms, and masquerades as a minister in The Pilgrim. 1918/23. 126 min. VH2/CHAP-0002.

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies: Volume One includes His New Job, A Night Out, The Champion, and In the Park. 1915. 110 min. VH2/CHAP-0004.

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies: Volume Two includes A Jitney Elopment, The Tramp, By the Sea, and Work. 1915. 96 min. VH2/CHAP-0005.

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies: Volume Three includes A Woman, The Bank, Shanghaied, and His Regeneration. 1915. 95 min. VH2/CHAP-0006.

Chaplin's Essanay Comedies: Volume Four includes A Night in the Show, Police, Burlesque on Carmen, and Triple Trouble. 1915/1918. 105 min. VH2/CHAP-0007.

Chaplin's Goliath: In Search of Scotland's Forgotten Star. Historians, family members and fellow Scotsmen recall Eric Campbell, best known as Chaplin's burly nemesis in Easy Street. A documentary by Kevin Macdonald. 1996. 52 min. VH2/CHAP-0003.

Charlie Chaplin... Our Hero! includes A Night in the Show, In the Park and Hot Finish. 1914-15. 58 min. VH2/CHAR-0002.

Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies #1 includes Making a Living, Kid Auto Races in Venice, A Busy Day, Mabel's Married Life, Laughing Gas, and The New Janitor. 1914. 67 min. VH2/CHAR-0003.

Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies #2 includes His Trysting Place, Getting Acquainted and The Fatal Mallet. 1914. 60 min. VH2/CHAR-0004.

Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies #3 includes Caught in a Cabaret, The Masquerader and Between Showers. 1914. 59 min. VH2/CHAR-0005.

Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies #4 includes Caught in the Rain, His Million Dollar Job, Mabel's Busy Day, and The Face on the Bar-Room Floor. 1914. 54 min. VH2/CHAR-0006.

Charlie Chaplin's Keystone Comedies #5 includes The Rounders, Mabel's Strange Predicament, Tango Tanglers and The Star Border. 1914. 57 min. VH2/CHAR-0007.

The Circus ; A Day's Pleasure. Circus clown Charlie Chaplin falls for bareback rider Merna Kennedy; A family goes for a drive in their Model T. 1928/1919. 105 min. VH1/CIRC-0001.

City Lights. The Tramp befriends a drunken millionaire and helps a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). 1931. 81 min. VH1/CITY-0002.

A Countess from Hong Kong. Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren star in writer/

director/composer Chaplin's final film. 1967. 108 min. VH1/COUN-0005.

Days of Thrills and Laughter. Robert Youngson salutes Chaplin and other silent film performers. 1961. 93 min. VH2/DAYS-0001.

Felix. This collection of Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat cartoons features a guest appearance by the Little Tramp. 1919-30. 60 min. VH2/FELI-0001.

The Fireman ; The Property Man. Charlie saves his sweetheart from a fire, then wreaks havoc in a vaudeville theater. 1916/14. 57 min. VH2/FIRE-0002.

The Floorwalker ; By the Sea. Chaplin gets a job as a department store guard, then takes a stroll on the boardwalk. 1916/15. 51 min. VH2/FLOO-0001.

The Gentleman Tramp. Laurence Olivier reads excerpts from Chaplin's autobiography in Richard Patterson's profile. 1975. 70 min. VH2/GENT-0001.

The Gold Rush. The Tramp prospects for gold and falls for dance-hall girl Georgia Hale. 1925. 72 min. VH1/GOLD-0001.

The Gold Rush ; Pay Day. Chaplin added a narration and score to his 1925 feature in 1942. Also, a 1922 short about a slow-working brick layer. 92 min. VH1/GOLD-0002.

The Great Dictator. In his first talkie, Chaplin plays both a meek Jewish barber and a ludicrous dictator. 1940. 128 min. VH1/GREA-0004.

His Prehistoric Past ; The Bank. Charlie dreams he is a caveman, then foils bank robbers. 1914/15. 54 min. VH2/HISP-0001.

Hollywood: 8: Comedy: A Serious Business. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill salute Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon. 1980. 52 min. VH2/HOLL-0010.

The Kid ; The Idle Class. Charlie rescues a child (Jackie Coogan) abandoned by his mother (Edna Purviance); The Tramp wreaks havoc in polite society. 1921. 86 min. VH1/KID*-0001.

A King in New York. A European monarch (Chaplin) visits the U.S. in this satire on 1950s sensibilities. 1957. 104 min. VH1/KING-0005.

The Knockout ; Dough and Dynamite. Mack Sennett directs comics Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Mack Swain. 1914. 72 min. VH2/KNOC-0001.

Legends of Comedy: 1: The Golden Age of Comedy: The '20s and '30s. John C. Feld compiles clips of Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and others. 1992. 55 min. VH2/LEGE-0005.

Limelight. Aging vaudevillian Charlie rescues suicidal ballerina Claire Bloom and performs for the first time with fellow genius Buster Keaton. 1952. 120 min. VH1/LIME-0001.

Modern Times. Factory worker Charlie (in his last silent film) suffers a nervous breakdown and joins up with a pretty gamin (Paulette Goddard). 1936. 87 min. VH1/MODE-0001.

Monsieur Verdoux. Chaplin shocked his public by portraying a Parisian bluebeard who murders his wives for their money. 1947. 122 min. VH1/MONS-0001.

Show People. King Vidor's comedy stars Marion Davies as a Hollywood hopeful. Chaplin and Vidor appear in cameos. 1928. 81 min. VH1/SHOW-0002.

Slapstick Encyclopedia: A Celebration of American Silent Comedy. Charlie appears in the episodes Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John (1998, 135 min., VH2/SLAP-0004) and Chaplin & Co. (1998, 134 min., VH2/SLAP-0005).

Three Charlies and a Phony! Charlie Chaplin in Recreation, His Musical Career and The Bond. Billy West impersonates the Tramp in His Day Out. 1914-18. 69 min. VH2/THRE-0002.

Tillie's Punctured Romance ; Mabel's Married Life. Big-city cad Chaplin plots to fleece love-hungry Marie Dressler in the first feature-length comedy, Mack Sennett's Tillie's Punctured Romance (73 min.). Director Charlie also stars with Mabel Normand in Mabel's Married Life (16 min.). 1914. 89 min. VH1/TILL-0002.

The Tramp ; A Woman. Chaplin rescues farmer's daughter Edna Purviance from ruffians; Charlie woos Edna, then dresses as a woman and flirts with her father. 1915. 55 min. VH2/TRAM-0001.

Triple Trouble ; Easy Street. Charlie thwarts thieves, then takes a job as a cop and battles a gigantic hoodlum (Eric Campbell). 1918/17. 60 min. VH2/TRIP-0002.

Unknown Chaplin. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's series uncovers rare out-takes to examine Chaplin's working methods. 1982. 156 min. VH2/UNKN-0001 through -0003.

A Woman of Paris ; Sunnyside. Socialite Adolphe Menjou seduces country girl Edna Purviance in Chaplin's only drama; A comic short about a hapless handyman. 1923/1919. 111 min. VH1/WOMA-0003.

Work ; Police. Paperhanger Charlie Chaplin decimates a house; ex-convict Charlie decides not to rob Edna Purviance. 1915/16. 54 min. VH2/WORK-0001.

Charlie Chaplin in Print

Charlie Chaplin's My Life in Pictures (OV 791.4302 Chaplin)

Charlie Chaplin's Own Story (B Chaplin)

Patrice Chaplin's Hidden Star: Oona O'Neill Chaplin: A Memoir (B Chaplin C)

Jerry Epstein's Remembering Charlie: A Pictorial Biography (791.4302 Chaplin E)

Wes D. Gehring's Charlie Chaplin: A Bio-bibliography (791.4302 Chaplin G)

Denis Gifford's Chaplin (791.4302 Chaplin G)

Georgia Hale's Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups (791.4302 Chaplin H)

Eric James' Making Music with Charlie Chaplin (780.92 James)

Gloria Kamen's Charlie Chaplin (JB Chaplin K)

Walter Kerr's The Silent Clowns (OV 791.435 K)

Kalton C. Lahue's World of Laughter: The Motion Picture Comedy Short, 1910-1930 (791.4309 L)

Kalton C. Lahue and Terry Brewer's Kops and Custards: The Legend of Keystone Films (791.4309 L)

Kenneth S. Lynn's Charlie Chaplin and His Times (791.4302 Chaplin L)

Gerald Doan McDonald, Michael Conway and Mark Ricci's The Films of Charlie Chaplin (OV 791.4302 Chaplin M)

Charles J. Maland's Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of an Image (791.4302 Chaplin M)

Gerald Mast's The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (791.4309 M)

Joyce Milton's Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin (791.4302 Chaplin M)

David Robinson's Chaplin: His Life and Art (791.4302 Chaplin R)

Jane Scovell's Oona: Living in the Shadows: A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin (B Chaplin S)

Charles Silver's Charles Chaplin: An Appreciation (791.4302 Chaplin S)

List compiled by Jonathan Guildroy

October 2002