Charlie Chaplin returned to Sheffield for one night only
as Sheffield University Concerts in partnership with Museums Sheffield
had rerarranged a planned outdoor screening of Chaplin films that was
due to take place in May.
Chaplin in the Park projected three of Charlie Chaplin’s most famous films on to the side of Weston Park Museum
In 1959 Chaplin revisited past triumphs. He selected some of his funniest early films and composed and added new music to them.
In A Dog’s Life Chaplin’s little tramp adopts a dog companion to
survive in the city. Mixing realism and fantasy, Shoulder Arms is a
celebrated satire of combat and features Charlie as a boot camp private
single-handedly winning World War I. In The Pilgrim Charlie is an escaped convict who is hilariously mistaken for the new minister of a small Texas town.
The three films were combined to form a single feature-length film, The Chaplin Revue.
Charlie
Chaplin was last seen in Sheffield in person in December 1904 when he
performed as Billy at the Lyceum Theatre in a production of Sherlock
Holmes.