Word: charlot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who have spent time familiarizing themselves with the topography of Greeneland will have some idea of what must happen next. France is liberated and so is Chavel, who emerges from prison with papers that identify him as one Jean-Louis Charlot. Having lost everything but his life, the survivor feels driven inexorably toward the home he has relinquished. There he meets his unsuspecting inheritors: an old woman who knows nothing of the fate of her son and a sister who can think of little else. Therese gives the ragged visitor food and discusses the horrible man who bought...
...again at the church door. I can't. I wish I could." Chavel, who has been asked to stay on as a handyman, falls in love with Therese and thinks he can both redeem his guilt and save her. By making her return the love of the person called Charlot, he will expiate her hatred for Chavel. Only subsequent and surprising twists of plot, including the appearance of a satanic seducer, inform Chavel of the true debt he owes eternity...
Hollywood is volatile, jealous and perhaps sinful. But it is intensely loyal to the little man whom it used to call Charlie before the wide world called him Charlot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior...