A KING IN NEW YORK
DIRECTOR: CHARLIE CHAPLIN
UK, 1958
Forced out of the US in 1952 for suspected Communist sympathies, Chaplin lashed back in exile with this scathing satire of everything American—from McCarthyism witch-hunts to Cinemascope and rock and roll—as he plays his last full role, a deposed and impoverished monarch seeking refuge in Manhattan (though the film was shot in England). “Hugely funny, healthily vulgar.”—The New York Times. (110 mins.)