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...Gold Rush (Chaplin; United Artists) is a revival of Charlie Chaplin's most successful comedy (gross: $7,112,000). Printed from the original 1925 negative, it has been modernized by its producer-director-author-star only to the extent of substituting his own narration for the old subtitles, editing out 1,000 feet of film and adding a musical background score. The result is a sight for sore eyes, for old-style Chaplin fans and novitiates alike...
...None of these plots had an adult approach to the complicated processes which will lead us to victory. Little wonder, then, that the average American, fed on such treacle, believes that the Germans will crack when faced with the innocence of an Elisabeth Bergner or a Charlie Chaplin...
...Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard and Jack Benny would certainly indicate that a highly palatable movie is in order. "To Be Or Not To Be" attempts to be a delightful and implausible tale of intrigue, spies, Gestapo and such, moulded about the tragic downfall of Poland in 1939. Like Charlie Chaplin's ill-fated "The Great Dictator" its humor is based on ridiculing Hitler and the overly efficient machinations of the Gestapo. Whether the current film is your dish or not depends upon your ability to laugh at situations founded on material which is essentially tragedy, such as the bombing...
...Came To Dinner" is the funniest movie to come out of Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin abandoned his cane for a social consciousness. It's also so different and original that it's quite apt to gain the rather dubious distinction of being the herald of a new cycle of film comedies...
...this period . . . must we have his photograph always before us? You have given us, at short intervals, Hitler gazing dreamily into the future, Hitler heiling with the hand, Hitler beaming costively at his vice-hitlers, Hitler staring severely at the camera, Hitler looking like Bismarck, Hitler looking like Chaplin, Hitler looking like Hitler (my least favorite impersonation, but how well he does...