Jan 01, 1996
54 min
Full-HD

Chaplin's Goliath (1996)

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

Category

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

The Scottish Film Production Fund Figment Films Scottish Television Enterprises

Bill Paterson

Narrator (voice)

Albert Austin

Self (archive footage)

Henry Bergman

Self (archive footage)

Eric Campbell

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Syd Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Self (archive footage)

Fred Karno

Self (archive footage)

Recommended For You

Action
1968
Movie

Kill!

Kill!

7
1968

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

Comedy
1961
Movie

A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

7.3
1961

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Drama
1958
Movie

The Big Country

The Big Country

7.6
1958

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.

Western
1965
Movie

Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou

6.3
1965

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Genre : Western

Comedy
1998
Movie

Orgazmo

Orgazmo

6.1
1998

A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.

Comedy
1994
Movie

Junior

Junior

5.2
1994

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

Crime
1947
Movie

Out of the Past

Out of the Past

7.6
1947

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Romance
2021
Movie

Little Fish

Little Fish

7
2021

A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.

Genre : Romance

Comedy
1971
Movie

Bananas

Bananas

6.7
1971

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Comedy
1998
Movie

Air Bud: Golden Receiver

Air Bud: Golden Receiver

5
1998

Josh and Buddy move from basketball to football in this first of several sequels to the original Air Bud.

Drama
2009
Movie

Fish Tank

Fish Tank

7
2009

Mia is a rebellious teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school. Her hard-partying mother, Joanne, neglects Mia's welfare in favor of her own, and her younger sister hangs out with a much older crowd. Sparks fly between Mia and Connor, Joanne's new boyfriend, and he encourages Mia to pursue her interest in dance. As the boundaries of the relationships become blurred, Mia and Joanne compete for Connor's affection.

Romance
1969
Movie

My Night at Maud's

My Night at Maud's

7.7
1969

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Genre : Romance

Comedy
2001
Movie

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

6.6
2001

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

Horror
1971
Movie

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

6.9
1971

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

History
2023
Movie

One Life

One Life

7.8
2023

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

Genre : History

Science Fiction
1992
Movie

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

6.2
1992

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

Genre : Science Fiction

Drama
1963
Movie

Hud

Hud

7.3
1963

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Western
1967
Movie

The Big Gundown

The Big Gundown

7.3
1967

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Genre : Western