DVD & Blu-ray: Charlie Chaplin's THE CIRCUS (1928) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of the circus, paying tribute to the acrobats and pantomimists who inspired his virtuoso pratfalls. After being mistaken for a pickpocket, Chaplin’s Little Tramp flees into the ring of a traveling circus and soon becomes the star of the show, falling for the troupe’s bareback rider along the way. Despite its famously troubled production, this gag-packed comedy ranks among Chaplin’s finest, thanks to some of the most audacious set pieces of the director-performer’s career, including a close brush with a lion and a climactic tightrope walk with a barrelful of monkeys. Rereleased in 1969 with a new score by Chaplin, The Circus is an uproarious high-wire act that showcases silent cinema’s most popular entertainer at the peak of his comic powers.

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Director: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 72 min

Rating: G

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: September 24, 2019

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DVD - The Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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New audio commentary featuring Charlie Chaplin biographer Jeffrey VanceInterview with Chaplin from 1969
New interview with Chaplin’s son Eugene Chaplin
In the Service of the Story, a new program on the film’s visual effects and production design by effects specialist Craig Barron
Chaplin Today: “The Circus,” a 2003 documentary on the film, featuring filmmaker Emir Kusturica Excerpted audio interview with Chaplin musical associate Eric James
Unused café sequence with new score by composer Timothy Brock, and related outtakes with audio commentary by Chaplin historian Dan KaminNewly discovered outtakes featuring the Tramp and the bareback rider
Original recording of the film’s opening song, “Swing, Little Girl,” by Ken BarrieFootage of the 1928 Hollywood premiere
Rerelease trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson