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Posted: October 29th, 2010.
City Lights Blu-ray: 
The Circus Blu-ray:
Chaplin Revue DVD:
All three titles available on 15th November 2010
CITY LIGHTS:
This 1931 silent comedy drama from Charles Chaplin sees The Tramp fall in love with a beautiful, blind flowergirl, whose family is in financial trouble. When he learns that an operation may restore the girls sight, hesets off to earn the money she needs to have surgery. The Tramp’s friendship with a wealthy man allows him to bethe girl’s benefactor and suitor but will she love him even when she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke,but a tramp? This dual-format release features the film newly restored in High Definition.
Special Features:
- Chaplin Today: City Lights documentary
- Introduction by David Robinson
- Outtakes
- Footage of Winston Churchills visit to the set
- Photo Gallery
THE CIRCUS:
Recognising his genius, Charles Chaplin won a special ACADEMY AWARD® for acting, writing, producing anddirecting The Circus. In this silent comedy, The Tramp finds himself at a circus, where he promptly gets chasedby the police, who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top, The Tramp is an accidental sensationwith his hilarious efforts to elude the police and immediately gets hired by the ringmaster. This Dual FormatEdition features the film newly and beautifully restored in High Definition.
Special Features:
- Introduction by David Robinson
- Chaplin Today: The Circus documentary
- Outtakes
- Photo Gallery
Disc One:
- Main Feature
- David Robson Introduction
- Short Films: Shoulder Arms (1918), A Dogs Life (1918)
Disc Two:
- Short Films: The Pilgrim (1923), Sunnyside (1919), A Day’s Pleasure (1919), The Idle Class (1921), Pay Day (1922)
- Photo Gallery
THE CHAPLIN REVUE:
Three classic silent comedies from Charles Chaplin – A Dog’s Life (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918) and ThePilgrim (1923) are here strung together to form a single feature length film with new music, narration and connectingmaterial. In A Dog’s Life, The Tramp and his dog companion try to survive in the city. Shoulder Arms featuresChaplin as a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero, and in The Pilgrim, he becomes the newminister for the town of Devil’s Gulch by mistake.
This 2-disc DVD edition features a restored version of the film along with a host of extras including the full length original versions of the three shorts. Full contents as follows:
- Disc One: Main Feature; David Robson Introduction; Short Films: Shoulder Arms (1918), A Dogs Life (1918)
Disc Two: Short Films: The Pilgrim (1923), Sunnyside (1919), A Day’s Pleasure (1919), The Idle Class (1921), Pay Day (1922); Photo Gallery
The discs above are all released on November 15th and sell on Amazon for £12.99 (RRP £19.99) for thetwo Blu-ray releases, and £9.99 (RRP £15.99) for the DVD.
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