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A King in New York (1957)

Comedy | 110 minutes
3,07 115 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 110 minuten

Alternative title: Een Koning in New York

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley and Jerry Desmonde

IMDb score: 7,0 (9.695)

Releasedate: 12 September 1957

A King in New York plot

"The King of Comedians!"

When a revolution breaks out in his country, King Shahdov flees to New York. Since he has no money, he goes on to star in TV commercials. Then he meets a child of communist parents, which makes Shahdov himself suspected of communism, which gets him into trouble.

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Actors and actresses

King Shahdov

Queen Irene

Prime Minister Voudel

Ambassador Jaume

Ann Kay - TV Specialist

Johnson - TV Advertiser

Mona Cromwell - Hostess

Rupert Macabee

Macabee Senior

Headmaster

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Movsin

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Chaplin ridicules "the American way of life" and of course does not fail to take aim (perhaps the main purpose of this film) at the communist hunt of which he himself was a victim, and this in a film that can hardly be called "successful".

There is little dash in it, although there are a few scenes (the elevator, for example) that are supposed to remind us of the great Charlie.

Actually quite disappointed with this late Chaplin.

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mrklm

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Director: Charles Chaplin

What do you get when you impose the same constraints on Chaplin as most of his filmmaking peers? This pleasant, yet somewhat disappointing satire answers that question. Chaplin was working with a limited budget and a tight schedule that left him neither the money nor the time to develop ideas properly. A King in New York is full of good ideas that you know would have come out better if Chaplin had had the opportunity to do so. Chaplin plays King Shahdov, who flees his homeland after a revolution and arrives in the US to discover that his Prime Minister [Jerry Desmonde] has slipped away with his fortune. So Shadov has little choice but to use his temporary American fame to solve his financial problems. A sharp analysis of the US in the 1950s, both politically and socially, but it is a mystery why Chaplin chose his son Michael for the crucial role of the politically savvy pseudo-revolutionary child Rupert Macabee: his acting is downright embarrassing! All in all certainly not bad, but pales next to Chaplin's previous films.

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Nice film about a king who flees his country when a revolution breaks out. Certainly not a bad film, but a lesser one from Charlie Chaplin. The second half is the best (which also partly has to do with the scenes with Charlie Chaplin's real son). A number of funny scenes, despite the fact that it lacks some sharpness.

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