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Limelight (1952)
The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!Director: Charles Chaplin
OVERALL: Draw-
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Extras:Deleted scene
"Footlights" - two short extracts from 'Footlights', the novel written by Chaplin as a basis for Limelight
"The Professor" (1919), unfinished short comedy (6:25)
Production summary -
Subtitles:No
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Aspect Ratio:1.27:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Extras:
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Subtitles:Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
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Case type:Keep Case
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Extras:DISC ONE
*The Film
DISC TWO
Introduction by David Robinson, Chaplin's biographer (5:42)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary by Edgardo Cozarinsky (26:35)
Deleted scene (4:29)
Original Score: 36 tracks (58:09 total)
"Footlights", two short extracts from 'Footlights' novel by Chaplin (2:24)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:24)
"Home Movies":
- USA 1950: Charles Chaplin with his wife Oona and their children Geraldine, Michael and Josephine (9:51)
- London 1959: Charles Chaplin returns to the scenes of his childhood (6:22)
- Trailers (4:25)
Photo Gallery:
- Limelight
- Deleted Scenes
- Shooting
- Sets and Production Sketches
- Charles Chaplin
- The Actors
- Limelight in the Theaters
- Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith
Film posters
The Chaplin Collection:
- The Kid (1921) (2:17)
- A Woman of Paris (1923) (1:57)
- The Gold Rush (1925/42) (1:46)
- The Circus (1928) (2:12)
- City Lights (1931) (2:39)
- Modern Times (1936) (1:50)
- The Great Dictator (1940) (2:32)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (2:46)
- Limelight (1952) (2:33)
- A King in New-York (1957) (2:37) -
Subtitles:English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Digipak
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Notes:Also available in The Chaplin collection, Vol. 1.
A PAL→NTSC port (25 fps).
When playing on 16:9 displays, some players may incorrectly zoom in on the image, cropping the top and bottom of the frame. -
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
DISC TWO
Introduction by David Robinson (5:42)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary (26:37)
Deleted scene (4:29)
Original Score : 36 tracks (58:13 total)
"Footlights" - two short extracts from 'Footlights', the novel written by Chaplin (2:24)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:25)
"Home Movies"
- USA 1950 (9:52)
- London 1959 (6:23)
- Trailers (4:25)
Photo Gallery
- Limelight
- Deleted Scenes
- Shooting
- Sets and Production Sketches
- Charles Chaplin
- The Actors
- Limelight in the Theaters
- Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith
Film posters
The Chaplin Collection:
- The Kid (1921) (2:16)
- A Woman of Paris (1923) (1:58)
- The Gold Rush (1925/42) (1:46)
- The Circus (1928) (2:13)
- City Lights (1931) (2:39)
- Modern Times (1936) (1:50)
- The Great Dictator (1940) (2:32)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (2:46)
- Limelight (1952) (2:33)
- A King in New York (1957) (2:37) -
Subtitles:Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, English HoH, French, French HoH, German, Italian, Italian HoH, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Digipak
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Notes:When playing on 16:9 displays, some players may incorrectly zoom in on the image, cropping the top and bottom of the frame.
Also available in the Charlie Chaplin 4 DVD Boxset and The Charlie Chaplin 10 DVD Box set.
Also available as a limited collector set, with 6 photos and a 24 pages booklet, in a special cardboard case.
French title: 'Les Feux de la Rampe'. -
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Amazon France
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Extras:Introduction by David Robinson (5:43)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary (26:41)
Deleted scene (4:30)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:26)
Photo Gallery (38:03)
Trailer (2;19)
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Subtitles:German
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Keep Case
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Extras:
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):German Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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UPC Number:4006680020143
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
DISC TWO
Introduction by David Robinson (5:42)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary (26:37)
Deleted scene (4:29)
Original Score : 36 tracks (58:13 total)
"Footlights" - two short extracts from 'Footlights', the novel written by Chaplin (2:24)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:25)
"Home Movies"
- USA 1950 (9:52)
- London 1959 (6:23)
- Trailers (4:25)
Photo Gallery
- Limelight
- Deleted Scenes
- Shooting
- Sets and Production Sketches
- Charles Chaplin
- The Actors
- Limelight in the Theaters
- Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith
Film posters
The Chaplin Collection:
- The Kid (1921) (2:16)
- A Woman of Paris (1923) (1:58)
- The Gold Rush (1925/42) (1:46)
- The Circus (1928) (2:13)
- City Lights (1931) (2:39)
- Modern Times (1936) (1:50)
- The Great Dictator (1940) (2:32)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (2:46)
- Limelight (1952) (2:33)
- A King in New York (1957) (2:37) -
Subtitles:Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, German HoH, Hebrew, Hungarian, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Coded regions 2/4/5.
When playing on 16:9 displays, some players may incorrectly zoom in on the image, cropping the top and bottom of the frame. -
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
DISC TWO
Introduction by David Robinson (5:42)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary (26:37)
Deleted scene (4:29)
Original Score : 36 tracks (58:13 total)
"Footlights" - two short extracts from 'Footlights', the novel written by Chaplin (2:24)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:25)
"Home Movies"
- USA 1950 (9:52)
- London 1959 (6:23)
- Trailers (4:25)
Photo Gallery
- Limelight
- Deleted Scenes
- Shooting
- Sets and Production Sketches
- Charles Chaplin
- The Actors
- Limelight in the Theaters
- Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith
Film posters
The Chaplin Collection:
- The Kid (1921) (2:16)
- A Woman of Paris (1923) (1:58)
- The Gold Rush (1925/42) (1:46)
- The Circus (1928) (2:13)
- City Lights (1931) (2:39)
- Modern Times (1936) (1:50)
- The Great Dictator (1940) (2:32)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (2:46)
- Limelight (1952) (2:33)
- A King in New York (1957) (2:37) -
Subtitles:Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, English HoH, French, French HoH, German, Italian, Italian HoH, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Digipak
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Notes:Includes a 16 page booklet.
DISC TWO includes optional Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish subtitles.
DISC TWO is region 2/4/5.
When playing on 16:9 displays, some players may incorrectly zoom in on the image, cropping the top and bottom of the frame.
Also included in the 5-film "The Chaplin Collection Volume 1" box set.
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
DISC TWO
Introduction by David Robinson (5:42)
"Chaplin Today - Limelight" documentary (26:37)
Deleted scene (4:29)
Original Score : 36 tracks (58:13 total)
"Footlights" - two short extracts from 'Footlights', the novel written by Chaplin (2:24)
"The Professor" (1919) - unfinished short comedy (6:25)
"Home Movies"
- USA 1950 (9:52)
- London 1959 (6:23)
- Trailers (4:25)
Photo Gallery
- Limelight
- Deleted Scenes
- Shooting
- Sets and Production Sketches
- Charles Chaplin
- The Actors
- Limelight in the Theaters
- Chaplin and Keaton by W. Eugene Smith
Film posters
The Chaplin Collection:
- The Kid (1921) (2:16)
- A Woman of Paris (1923) (1:58)
- The Gold Rush (1925/42) (1:46)
- The Circus (1928) (2:13)
- City Lights (1931) (2:39)
- Modern Times (1936) (1:50)
- The Great Dictator (1940) (2:32)
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) (2:46)
- Limelight (1952) (2:33)
- A King in New York (1957) (2:37) -
Subtitles:Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, German HoH, Hebrew, Hungarian, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono -
Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Coded regions 2/4/5.
When playing on 16:9 displays, some players may incorrectly zoom in on the image, cropping the top and bottom of the frame. -
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OVERALL: Draw
Between all the Warner 2-disc releases. Do note that the R1 American edition is reported to suffer from PAL-to-NTSC conversion issues.
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CUTS:
- R0 America- Image - No cuts (137:28).
- R0 Scandinavia- Soul Media - No cuts (132:05).
- R1 America- Warner Home Video - No cuts (131:24 PAL->NTSC).
- R2 France- Warner Home Video - No cuts (131:35 PAL)
- R2 Germany- Arthaus - No cuts (132:01 PAL)
- R2 Germany- Kinowelt Home Entertainment - No cuts (130:03 PAL)
- R2 Germany- Warner Home Video - No cuts (131:35 PAL)
- R2 United Kingdom- Warner Home Video - No cuts (131:35 PAL)
- R4 Australia- Warner Home Video - No cuts (131:35 PAL)
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Comparison added by Goran_Andersson on 17/11/06
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 23/05/24UPDATE LOG:
23/12/11: Addition of the Scandinavian edition.
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17/07/15: Additions of the Australia, Germany x2, updated UK Warner specs.
23/05/24: Added Germany Kinowelt.
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