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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published

A sketch from the film showing Sarapha flying over houses with chimneys
The scripts detail everything from scene breakdowns to special effects sessions, including wings for Sarapha. Photograph: The Roy Export Company Ltd. All Rights Reserved

He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema’s first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces.

Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88.

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