Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Marjorie Bennett. DVD release of the 1952 motion picture. Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Disc 2: Chaplin's "Limelight": Its evolution and intimacey (a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson); Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd (new interviews with the actors from 2015 and 2012); Chaplin today: "Limelight" (a 2002 documentary on the film); Outtake (scene involving an old, armless friend of Calvero's that was removed before the film's worldwide distribution); Charlie Chaplin reads from Footlights (archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights which is the basis for Limelight); Short films: A night in the show (1915 ; 25 min., accompanied by a 2014 score by composer Timothy Brock), The professor (1919 ; 7 min., uncomplete film); Trailers. Booklet includes an essay by critic Peter von Bagh.
Summary:
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
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