Review of The Real Charlie Chaplin

A documentary biopic, with lots of old footage. I've pretty much never found Chaplin funny, but he is a really interesting character, and was a powerful force in Hollywood - he created United Artists, he had his own studio, he was an absolute perfectionist about his films.

This is a bit on the long side, but worth watching. I really didn't know about Chaplin and HUAC, and how his career and presence were destroyed by the anti-Communist witch-hunt...I'd just assumed that he had faded away as his kind of comedy became out of date. That wasn't the case, and he was effectively exiled from the US because the State Department wouldn't let him and his family return from a trip to Europe.

Watched on All4 via Chromecast and mobile.