Chaplin Page #7

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I'm all for proving your innocence

but how?

Go back to them.

I beg you.

Get them to agree to a blood test.

So that night you went to his house...

...did you and Mr. Chaplin

have sexual relations?

Doesn't it look like it?

Never mind what it looks like.

Did you?

She said she did.

Why else agree to a blood test?

The next morning

he just called a cab.

Paid me off.

He wanted somebody younger.

Classier.

Didn't he?

Yes, thank you.

It's all over.

The test proved it's not my baby.

Let's just forget all this new-fangled

rubbish about blood-tests.

Put it out of our minds.

His honor has ruled them...

...inadmissible.

What matters now is the financial

future of this poor child.

It is her future

the State is here to protect.

It makes me mad...

...how this fellow tries to put it

over us simpletons.

This great star...

...of stage and screen...

...who has enjoyed our hospitality

for 30 years without...

...applying for American citizenship.

But what good has his money done

Chaplin?

Wasting his time debauching girls.

What good has it done America?

This is the kind of stuff

that makes for communism.

Now my client...

...on the other hand...

...is, alas...

...no more moral than Chaplin.

Ah, yes. Yes.

They're both equally guilty.

Only Chaplin is old enough

to be her father.

Prowling around with girls.

Members of the jury, use your common

sense, and just look at this man.

This cheap, Cockney cad.

This...

...little tramp.

Then take a very good look at...

...innocent Carol Ann.

I defy you not to see

the resemblance.

Gentlemen an ladies... wives and

mothers everywhere are watching you.

Watching to see you stop Chaplin

in his tracks.

You'll sleep well the night

you give this baby a name.

The night you show this lecher...

...the law means him

as well as the bums on skid row.

GUILTY!

Chaplin Baby Gets $75 a week

CHAPLIN MUST SUPPORT BABY

Chaplin Faces Call In Red Inquiry

Drive to Bar Reds Stirred

by Attack on Chaplin

Chaplin Joins

Red-Organized Peace Group

Not a Red, Chaplin Says

CHAPLIN FINISHES "LIMELIGHT"

It's a star-studded evening here.

Here is Charlie Chaplin

with his lovely wife, Oona.

Are you a communist, Mr. Chaplin?

Are you a fellow traveler?

Will you attend

the McCarthy hearings?

Gentlemen, please.

Mr. Chaplin has said he will go

whenever he is called.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Even if there's one communist...

...in the state department...

...that would still be

one communist too many.

Mr. Lawson, are you now

or have you ever been...

...a member of the communist party?

I'm responding in the only way

in which any American...

...can respond to a question

which absolutely invades...

Then you refuse to answer, correct?

I have said I will offer my beliefs...

Stand away from the stand.

Stand away from the stand!

I am fighting for the Bill of Rights!

I'd love to get away for a while.

Maybe after this bundle arrives

we could go.

Sir.

We just got word.

Chaplin left for London on vacation.

Where's Mr. Chaplin?

We left him at the stern.

It's all right, darling.

What is it, sweetheart?

Is it Syd?

What is it?

They've thrown you out.

Thrown me out?

Thrown me out of what?

Of America.

I'm so sorry.

I can't go back.

There are nights when it's still hard

being in exile.

They surely wouldn't refuse you a

visa now. Thought of going back?

Let's go in.

- I have everything I need here.

It's cold.

- I like the cold.

I must go away.

I must go anyway.

The telephone!

- I heard it ringing, thank you.

No, George, in answer to your

question. I'm used to invitations.

It's been a long day.

You must be very tired.

Come on, George, finish it off.

The question mark.

What is it?

You mean that?

It was a personal matter.

Nothing relevant.

Tell me.

Okay.

The madness.

I wondered

how much did it affect you?

What makes you think it did?

Your mother was certified insane

and...

...your grandmother was as well

and, uh...

That's not what dogged me, George.

It wasn't that.

It was...

...the knowledge that if you did what

I did, if you were a clown.

And you had passion to tell

a particular story...

...something...

...beyond.

You only had one chance

to get it right.

And I never did.

One never does. But you know that.

That's not the problem.

It's when you feel you're

getting close...

...but you can't make it.

You're not good enough.

You're not complete enough.

And despite all your fantasies...

...you're second-rate.

It's human.

And it's very hard.

Why not add that?

It's not important, really.

Ultimately, you're judged by what

you did, not what you didn't do.

And I didn't change things, I just...

...he just...

...cheered people up.

Not bad, that.

Charlie?

Charlie, dear.

I dreamed I was answering

questions for George. Silly.

California called again.

You have to give them an answer.

They took 20 years to decide

I can take another afternoon.

Enough. Enough!

From Los Angeles, the 44th annual

Academy Awards Presentation.

Suppose they start throwing things.

Now that would be a story.

You never know... on the stage.

I can see the headlines:

"Amazing incident at Academy Awards".

"Chaplin Disappears under

Avalanche of Oscars".

Look, it's Walter.

Does that make you happy?

No.

- Crabby.

I shouldn't have let them show

film clips.

People will think they're old.

They are old.

Well over 50 years, some of them.

You know the worst thing

about age is...

...you can't defend yourself.

When I was young and handsome

and had my power...

...I'd make a movie...

...and make them laugh

and make them cry.

Now I'm at their mercy.

Come in.

- Go away.

We're ready for you, Mr. Chaplin.

Behave yourself.

Now the President of the Academy

Mr. Daniel Taradash.

Remember the President

of the Academy, Daniel Taradash.

Taradash? Sounds like a spice.

The inscription reads:

"To Charles Chaplin...

"...for the incalculable effect

he had making motion picture...

"...the art form of this century."

"Humor heightens our sense

of survival...

"...and preserves our sanity."

The words of Charlie Chaplin.

The abiding elements of Chaplin's

artistic conscience...

...as actor, writer, director, and...

...to quote W.C. Fields

"greatest ballet dancer who ever lived".

A few years ago, Mr. Chaplin said:

"My only enemy is time."

We respectfully disagree.

I'm leaving you here, darling.

My white dress... They mustn't

see anyone until the clips are over.

Time is Charlie Chaplin's dearest

and eternal friend.

Here is the proof.

Watch... remember... rejoice.

The End

Charles Spencer Chaplin accepted

his Special Academy Award.

Days later, he left Hollywood

and returned to Switzerland.

In 1975 Charlie

became sir Charles Chaplin...

...receiving his knighthood

from Queen Elizabeth in London.

During a 54-years career, Charlie

made 81 films. Five were talkies...

...67 where completed

before his 30th birthday.

Charlie died, aged 88

on Christmas Day 1977 at his home...

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