A Countess from Hong Kong 1967
A Countess from Hong Kong 1967
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin (original screenplay)
Stars: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
A Countess from Hong Kong is a 1967 British parody film and the last film coordinated, composed, delivered and scored by Charlie Chaplin. It was one of two movies Chaplin coordinated in which he didn't assume a noteworthy part (the other was 1923's A Woman of Paris), and his exclusive shading film. Chaplin's cameo denoted his last screen appearance. The motion picture featured Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Tippi Hedren, and Sydney Earle Chaplin, Chaplin's third child.
The story is construct freely in light of the life of a lady Chaplin met in France, named Moussia Sodskaya, or "Skaya" as he calls her in his 1922 book, My Trip Abroad. She was a Russian artist and artist that "was a stateless individual marooned in France without a passport". The thought, by official statement composed by Chaplin after the film got a negative gathering, "came about because of a visit I made to Shanghai in 1931 where I went over various titled blue-bloods who had gotten away from the Russian Revolution. They were down and out and without a nation, their status was of the most reduced evaluation. The men ran rickshaws and the ladies worked in ten-penny move lobbies. At the point when the second World War broke out a significant number of the old nobles had kicked the bucket and the more youthful era relocated to Hong Kong where their predicament was surprisingly more dreadful, for Hong Kong was stuffed with refugees."
It was initially begun as a film called Stowaway in the 1930s, got ready for Paulette Goddard, however generation was never finished. This subsequent film, made about 30 years after its commencement, was a basic disappointment and netted US$2,000,000 from a US$3,500,000 spending plan. In any case, it proved to be to a great degree fruitful in Europe and Japan. What's more, the accomplishment of the music score could cover the financial plan.
Faultfinders, for example, Tim Hunter and Andrew Sarris, and also the writer John Betjeman and the executive François Truffaut saw the film as being among Chaplin's best works. On-screen character Jack Nicholson is additionally a major aficionado of the film. The film's signature music, composed by Chaplin, turned into the hit melody "This Is My Song" for Petula Clark—a UK no. 1 and US no. 3.
Film Story: Envoy assign to Saudi Arabia Ogden Mears (Marlon Brando) sails back to America subsequent to visiting the world. He meets Natascha, a Russian royal lady (Sophia Loren), in Hong Kong after she sneaks on board in night dress to escape her life at a move lobby for mariners. A displaced person, she has no international ID and is compelled to stay in his lodge amid the voyage.
Ogden disdains the circumstance, being a hitched man, in spite of the fact that looking for a separation, and stresses how it may influence his vocation on the off chance that she is found. Yet, he reluctantly consents to let her sit tight. They then need to make sense of an approach to get her off the boat, and it is masterminded that she wed his matured valet, Hudson (Patrick Cargill).
In spite of the fact that it is just a convention, Hudson wishes to perfect the relationship, a desire she doesn't share. Natascha keeps away from him and, before docking at port, hops off the boat and swims shorewards.
Ogden's better half (Tippi Hedren) then joins the journey, having quite recently missed Natasha. Ogden's legal counselor companion Harvey (Sydney Earle Chaplin), who orchestrated the marriage, meets Natascha shorewards and advises her that the movement officers have acknowledged her as Hudson's significant other. Ogden's significant other then stands up to him about Natasha, talking rather generally about her and the life she drove. He then inquires as to whether his significant other would have done also under such circumstances.
The film closes with Ogden and Natascha meeting in a lodging's men's club, where they start moving, since he has left the journey and his significant other behind. Charlie Chaplin shows up as a matured boat's steward.
