Scott Detrow

He was part owner of United Artists, a major releasing organization. And he was 63 years old. And he figured he probably had 10 more years. He was not about to leave. He lived in one house in California for his entire life. He'd been in one house for 30-odd years. He was not a guy who pulled up stakes quickly or easily or hopped around. So he was going to be a lifer in Southern California.

The fact that that choice was taken away from him, Enraged him and it's never really been obvious how enraged he was Until you read the letters that I found in the chaplain archives that he wrote to friends like James Agee Where he does vent and he's clearly? Carrying around a load of anger verging on rage about what was done to him

The fact that that choice was taken away from him, Enraged him and it's never really been obvious how enraged he was Until you read the letters that I found in the chaplain archives that he wrote to friends like James Agee Where he does vent and he's clearly? Carrying around a load of anger verging on rage about what was done to him

The fact that that choice was taken away from him, Enraged him and it's never really been obvious how enraged he was Until you read the letters that I found in the chaplain archives that he wrote to friends like James Agee Where he does vent and he's clearly? Carrying around a load of anger verging on rage about what was done to him

Totally false. None of his films were shown in the Soviet Union until the Gorbachev era because the Soviet Union wouldn't pay the money that Chaplin thought they should to rent the films. And he wasn't going to give them to him for free.

Totally false. None of his films were shown in the Soviet Union until the Gorbachev era because the Soviet Union wouldn't pay the money that Chaplin thought they should to rent the films. And he wasn't going to give them to him for free.

Totally false. None of his films were shown in the Soviet Union until the Gorbachev era because the Soviet Union wouldn't pay the money that Chaplin thought they should to rent the films. And he wasn't going to give them to him for free.

Extremely successful. Extremely successful. Limelight was a huge hit in Europe. Actually, it made more money than any other Chaplin film in terms of European grosses. But a lot of places in America never saw it because the American Legion would show up and picket it. and tell people going in that they were being un-American by going to see an un-American picture by an un-American artist.

Extremely successful. Extremely successful. Limelight was a huge hit in Europe. Actually, it made more money than any other Chaplin film in terms of European grosses. But a lot of places in America never saw it because the American Legion would show up and picket it. and tell people going in that they were being un-American by going to see an un-American picture by an un-American artist.

Extremely successful. Extremely successful. Limelight was a huge hit in Europe. Actually, it made more money than any other Chaplin film in terms of European grosses. But a lot of places in America never saw it because the American Legion would show up and picket it. and tell people going in that they were being un-American by going to see an un-American picture by an un-American artist.

It's a love story, basically, about the theater. There's no political orientation to it whatsoever. But they were a... Lime Light was. A limelight was a completely apolitical picture. But they were still reacting to the great dictator. They were still reacting to modern times and the idea of modern times being anti-capitalist.

It's a love story, basically, about the theater. There's no political orientation to it whatsoever. But they were a... Lime Light was. A limelight was a completely apolitical picture. But they were still reacting to the great dictator. They were still reacting to modern times and the idea of modern times being anti-capitalist.

It's a love story, basically, about the theater. There's no political orientation to it whatsoever. But they were a... Lime Light was. A limelight was a completely apolitical picture. But they were still reacting to the great dictator. They were still reacting to modern times and the idea of modern times being anti-capitalist.

I don't know if you remember modern times, but it opens with the factory workers flooding into the factory in the morning and the production line getting going and the assembly line moving faster and faster and everybody trying to keep up. And then we cut to the president of the corporation who's working a jigsaw puzzle at his desk. That's as close to a criticism of capitalism as it went.

I don't know if you remember modern times, but it opens with the factory workers flooding into the factory in the morning and the production line getting going and the assembly line moving faster and faster and everybody trying to keep up. And then we cut to the president of the corporation who's working a jigsaw puzzle at his desk. That's as close to a criticism of capitalism as it went.

I don't know if you remember modern times, but it opens with the factory workers flooding into the factory in the morning and the production line getting going and the assembly line moving faster and faster and everybody trying to keep up. And then we cut to the president of the corporation who's working a jigsaw puzzle at his desk. That's as close to a criticism of capitalism as it went.

But that was Chaplin's worldview. He didn't see society at large as evil or as vampirish. He saw it as indifferent. He didn't think society at large had a limited interest in the life of the underclass. And it wasn't a character flaw. It wasn't based on money. It was just based on human nature.

But that was Chaplin's worldview. He didn't see society at large as evil or as vampirish. He saw it as indifferent. He didn't think society at large had a limited interest in the life of the underclass. And it wasn't a character flaw. It wasn't based on money. It was just based on human nature.

But that was Chaplin's worldview. He didn't see society at large as evil or as vampirish. He saw it as indifferent. He didn't think society at large had a limited interest in the life of the underclass. And it wasn't a character flaw. It wasn't based on money. It was just based on human nature.

True. Absolutely true. And so he had them pulled from release in America.