UK,
1957, 110 min
Directed by:
Charlie ChaplinScreenplay:
Charlie ChaplinComposer:
Charlie ChaplinCast:
Charlie Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Sidney James, Michael Chaplin, Harry Green, Dawn Addams, Shani Wallis, Yvonne Romain, Alan Gifford (more)Plots(1)
A wonderful parody of 1950's American society, A King in New York, follows King Igor Shahdov's adventures in the Big Apple after a revolution in his country forces him from the throne. Shahdov becomes an accidental television celebrity, experiments with plastic surgery and is wrongly accused of being a Communist. (Transmission Films)
Reviews (1)
Charlie Chaplin wasn’t lost even in the era of sound films, which he perfectly proved with this movie. I think it's a bit underrated, maybe because it's a bit too political, but it's still great entertainment that manages to lean into society and its politics at the time. It’s funny and clever, and I liked that.
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