Rediscover this comedy classic thanks to Charlie Chaplin’s inimitable humor via this splendid vintage-style Circus Poster!
Discover Charlie Chaplin’s first sound film with this magnificent City Lights Poster that will bring a breath of nostalgia to your decor.
- Paper Feature:
- 🎨 Canvas: world standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
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- High UV resistance.
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Description of this Poster: Charlie Chaplin’s Circus
The Circus is a 1928 silent film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis, and Henry Bergman. The ringmaster of a poor circus hires Chaplin’s little tramp as a clown, but discovers he can only be funny unintentionally.
Producing the film was the most difficult experience of Chaplin’s career. Numerous problems and delays occurred, including a studio fire, the death of Chaplin’s mother, as well as Chaplin’s bitter divorce from his second wife Lita Grey, and claims from the Internal Revenue Service regarding Chaplin’s back taxes, all resulting in an eight-month hiatus of filming.[2] The Circus was the seventh-highest-grossing silent film in cinema history, grossing over $3.8 million in 1928.[1]
On the ring of a circus, the penniless and starving tramp (Chaplin) is mistaken for a reprehensible pickpocket and pursued by both the police and the real crook (the latter having hidden a stolen wallet and watch in the tramp’s pocket to avoid detection). While running away, the Tramp stumbles into the middle of a performance and unknowingly becomes the star of the show. The struggling circus ringmaster/owner gives him a tryout the next day, but the Tramp fails miserably. However, when the property men quit because they haven’t been paid, he is hired on the spot to replace them. Once again, he inadvertently creates a comical mess during a performance. The ringmaster shrewdly hires him as a low-paid real estate agent, always stationed in the performance area of the big top, so he can unknowingly improvise comic acts. The Tramp befriends Merna (Kennedy), a horsewoman who is being mistreated by her stepfather, the ringmaster. She later informs the hobo that he is the star of the show, forcing the ringmaster to pay him accordingly. With the circus thriving because of him, the hobo can also get better treatment for Merna. After hearing a fortune teller tell Merna that she sees “love and marriage with a handsome, dark-haired man who is near you now,” the overjoyed hobo buys a ring from another clown. Unfortunately for him, she meets Rex (Crocker), the newly hired tightrope walker. The hobo listens as she rushes to tell the fortune teller that she has fallen in love with this new man. With his heart broken, the hobo is unable to entertain the crowds. After several poor performances, the ringmaster warns him that he only has one chance. When Rex can’t be found for a performance, the ringmaster (knowing that the tramp has been practicing his tightrope act in hopes of supplanting his rival) sends the tramp in his place. Despite a few mishaps, including several mischievous escaped monkeys, he manages to survive the experience and receives much applause from the audience. However, when he sees the ringmaster slapping Merna after the show, he beats him and is fired. Merna runs off to join him. The tramp finds Rex and brings him back to marry Merna. The trio returns to the circus. The ringmaster begins to berate his stepdaughter, but stops when Rex informs him that she is his wife. When the traveling circus leaves, the tramp stays behind: he prefers to step aside to allow them to be happy. Melancholy, he gets up and walks away with a cheerful step.