Name: Limelight
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Released: 1952
Duration: 2 h 11 min
Cast: Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom, Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Norman Lloyd

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Buster Keaton

Claire Bloom

Sydney Chaplin

Charles Chaplin

Norman Lloyd

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

Limelight

french

german

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Marion Mack

Glen Cavender

Jim Farley

Frederick Vroom

Charles Henry Smith

Frank Barnes

Joe Keaton

When Union spies steal an engineer&#x27;s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

The General

Deutsch

Francais

English

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Tom McGuire

Ernest Torrence

Marion Byron

Tom Lewis

James T. Mack

Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn&#x27;t quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He&#x27;s being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.

Steamboat Bill, Jr

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Kathryn McGuire

George Davis

John Patrick

Kewpie Morgan

Erwin Connelly

Jane Connelly

Ford West

Ward Crane

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend&#x27;s father&#x27;s pocketwatch.

Sherlock Junior

Clarence Burton

Howard Newkirk Clugston

Noble Johnson

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

The Navigator

Natalie Talmadge

Joe Roberts

Ralph Bushman

Craig Ward

Monte Collins

Kitty Bradbury

Buster Keaton Jr.

Leonard Clapham

Edward Coxen

Jean Dumas

Jack Duffy

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Our Hospitality

Erich von Stroheim

William Holden

Gloria Swanson

Nancy Olson

Lloyd Gough

Jack Webb

Franklyn Farnum

Larry Blake

Charles Dayton

Cecil B. DeMille

Fred Clark

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Sunset Boulevard

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Marceline Day

Harold Goodwin

Sidney Bracy

Harry Gribbon

Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.

The Cameraman

Jean Arthur

T. Roy Barnes

Snitz Edwards

Ruth Dwyer

Frankie Raymond

A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.

Seven Chances

Edward G. Robinson

J. Farrell MacDonald

Wallace Beery

George E. Stone

Jack Hill

Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer&#x27;s jewelry.

Restauré par Lobster Films en collaboration avec The Blackhawk Collection d’après un original nitrate, ce film – produit par une marque de cigarettes pour financer un sanatorium contre les maladies du poumon - est avant tout une galerie de cameo sans équivalent. De Keaton à Norma Shearer, de Maurice Chevalier à Gary Cooper, saurez-vous tous les reconnaitre ? 

Lobster Films

Hidden Treasures

Home

The Stolen Jools

Français

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Anne Cornwall

Flora Bramley

Florence Turner

Buster plays a student who&rsquo;s the best at everything except sports. The prettiest girl in the school, who is courted by all the athletes, tells him that she will not give in to his advances until he improves his athletic skills, which is no easy task!

College

Sybil Seely

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit&#x27;s component numbering.

One Week

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Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

The Scarecrow

A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city&#x27;s entire police force.

Cops

Virginia Fox

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

The Paleface

Nell Harrison

James Karen

Susan Reed

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one &#x27;shhh!&#x27;) in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley&#x27;s principle &#x27;esse est percipi&#x27; (to be is to be perceived), Keaton&#x27;s very existence conspires against his efforts

Film

Lois Maxwell

Julie Harris

Richard Johnson

Russ Tamblyn

Fay Compton

Rosalie Crutchley

Valentine Dyall

A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind.

The Haunting

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Anjelica Huston

Woody Allen

Alan Alda

Martin Landau

Mia Farrow

Caroline Aaron

Joanna Gleason

Jenny Nichols

Jerry Orbach

Bill Bernstein

Stephanie Roth

An ophthalmologist&#x27;s mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jean Gabin

Lino Ventura

Alain Delon

Irina Demick

Danielle Volle

Elisa Cegani

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

The Sicilian Clan

Albert Austin

Edna Purviance

Charlie Chaplin

Mack Swain

Phyllis Allen

After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.

Pay Day

Henry Bergman

Tom Wilson

Chuck Reisner

The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

A Dog's Life

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Eric Campbell

Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

The Immigrant

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Paulette Goddard

Jack Oakie

Reginald Gardiner

Henry Daniell

Billy Gilbert

Grace Hayle

Carter DeHaven Sr.

Emma Dunn

Bernard Gorcey

Paul Weigel

Maurice Moscovitch

A barber wounded during the First World War returns home after 20 years within hospital walls. His shop has grown full of cobwebs and dust, but it is the hateful graffiti on his shop window that takes him totally by surprise. Hynkel, the tyrannical dictator, and his henchmen persecute the barber, as well as the rest of the Jewish community, including the beautiful Hannah. 
A visionary satire that marked history, just as history itself left its mark on the film.

The Great Dictator

Dawn Addams

Oliver Johnston

Michael Chaplin

Alan Gifford

Maxine Audley

Joan Ingram

Harry Green

Sidney James

Phil Brown

Jerry Desmonde

John McLaren

Robert Arden

Shani Wallis

Joy Nichols

Fleeing revolution in his country, a European monarch seeks refuge in 1950s New York City. His corrupt Prime Minister having left him penniless, King Shahdov even stars in TV commercials to fund his living expenses. Meeting a boy whose parents are being persecuted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he takes the homeless ten-year old under his wing, but soon after is summoned to his own HUAC hearing. Hilarious mayhem ensues, but the boy&rsquo;s fate is not quite as carefree.

A King in New York

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