Lost Chaplin footage reveals Dictator's colour A long-lost home movie shows how the actor intended a different end to his finest film, writes Chris Hastings

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: January 13, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

A HOME movie containing unseen colour footage of Charlie Chaplin filming his 1940 black-and-white classic The Great Dictator has been found in a suitcase at his former Swiss home.

The film, hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent cinematic history, reveals that Chaplin planned a completely different ending to his satire on Nazi Germany.

The famous last reel of The Great Dictator, in which Chaplin looks into the camera and makes a heartfelt plea for world peace, was actually an 11th-hour innovation to resolve technical problems. His original ending was to be a montage that ...

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