Word: chaplinitis
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...Japs seized several U.S. films in Batavia. One was Charlie Chaplin's satire on Hitler, The Great Dictator, which they showed "four or five times for a bunch of Japanese officers and they all had a big laugh out of it." Their favorite picture was 1,000,000 B.C. ("It showed the white man in a rather low state of life. They sit tearing at bones and acting like animals...
Second, attraction is Comic Mario Moreno, known throughout Latin America as Cantinflas, Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...onetime tent-show clown, bullfighter, prize fighter, Cantinflas at 31 is vice president of one of Mexico's leading film-producing companies (Posa). His films outdraw Hollywood's in Mexico. Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest clown, has pronounced Cantinflas the "world's greatest clown...
JUDGE: "What was the significance of killing Chaplin...
...KOGA: "Chaplin is a popular figure in the United States and the darling of the capitalist class. We believed that killing him would cause a war with America, and thus we could kill two birds with a single stone...