This film from 1957 is pretty endearing as it is the LAST starring vehicule of the former "little tramp" of 40 years earlier, the great Chaplin or Charlot, as he is known in Europe. ( He later took one last stab at film as Director of "A Countess from Hong Kong " starring Sofia Loren and Marlon Brando.) Though this film is not as personal and tender as 'Limelight' from the early 50's, it does touch on an aspect of Charlie's life turning himself into a fictitious, exiled King, courted big time in New York. Let's not forget that Charlie was pretty well blacklisted after Limelight and was not permitted back into the U. S. A... Chaplin is harking on his exile from the U. S. to Switzerland in 1952. He cleverly disguises the situation as a deposed European Monarch taking asylum in New York! I don't think anyone could have missed Charlie's biting satire against the U. S. government, particularly the State Department and the McCarthy witch hunt for Communist sympathizers.
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