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Article: Charlie Chaplin and His Times.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 7, 1997
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FEW icons of the twentieth century seem so dated as Charlie Chaplin, at least in England, his homeland. His films are not seen on British television (apart from the occasional clip from Modern Times in social documentaries), and their theatrical showings seem to be confined to cinema clubs and retrospectives. Inquiry at video stores is met with a shake of the head and the reply that his feature films are in the catalogue, but . . . Of course the name is still a household word, and the image of the baggy-trousered tramp with cane and bowler presumably remains in the mind of everyone over forty, but it is the image of a relic.
It astonished me to learn that my ...