Perspectives: In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps With Terry Jones
- TV documentary
- ITV1
- 2015
- 1 episode
An episode from ITV's Perspectives documentary strand in which Terry Jones talks about Charlie Chaplin. Features Terry Jones, Kate Guyonvarch, David Robinson, Michael Chaplin and Charlie Chaplin
Press clippings
Radio Times review
How do you add to what has already been said, shown and written about Charlie Chaplin? Terry Jones concludes here that Chaplin was a "genius" who "took physical comedy to new heights" - not bold claims. He laughs at clips from the great silent films, tries to imitate the Tramp's walk and in several sequences simply stands on the streets of south London reading aloud from a paperback of Chaplin's autobiography. It all feels a little undercooked, but some of the archive footage, for instance of Chaplin revisiting Lambeth in the 1960s, strikes a chord.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 10th May 2015