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Chaplin looks old in this movie. Even it is not completed this film can be seen in Limelight DVD set. In Chaplin's human drama masterpiece Limelight, Calvero the tramp comedian performs several acts, one of those is the "performing fleas" act. This act was performed by Chaplin originally in this movie "The Professor". Chaplin was related to whole music hall life, vaudeville, singing, Harlequinade and circus. In limelight (which is highly autobiographical) Chaplin is in all. The Professor is I think a quite artistic film. Chaplin is not the usual tramp in this film. He is a flea trainer. There is a scene similar to the scene in The Kid, Chaplin rents a bed just in the same place he does in the kid. And performs his great flea act in this film. I wander why he stopped making this film.

Osman F. Seden is a good director with a wide sense of humour. He made many wonderful films ant this is one of those. Of course the most important thing in this movie is the actor Sadri Alisik. Sadri Alisik is too great an artist that can only be compared to Charles Chaplin. In this film Sadri Alisik is a penniless tramp, while he was in a meyhane (place with alcohol drinks) two rich businessmen make a bet, one wanted to show the other that tramps can also be trustworthy. So they find the trampest tramp of country, Ofsayt Osman (Sadri Alisik). They give him a 1 million cheque, and tell him not to spend it before a month passes. Ofsayt (offside) Osman is named Ofsayt because he had no goal in his entire life. He never had a success, so people call him Ofsayt Osman. He was of course trustworthy and would never take even a lira (Turkish money) of the cheque. But he meets a ill girl (Filiz Akin) and spends some of the money for her operation. So he was sued for not obeying the agreement. The final scene is delicious and very touching. Ofsayt Osman asks while crying: - Dear judge, I've never had a goal in my whole life, now I spent some of this cheque for a young ill girl, is not that a goal again, is not that a goal? Of course kind hearted businessmen forgive him and happy end happens. There is another love story in the film between the tramp friend (who was a secret journalist in fact) of Ofsayt Osman and the daughter of the millionaire. This film is one of the several greatest films I've ever seen.

This is an amazing film of Chaplin. Indeed Chaplin is supposed to do every incredible work. Chaplin's tramp is usually a waiter in a restaurant, so there is much for a waiter to do as a gag in slapstick. We can see Charlot as a violin artist, a film artist, a new janitor, a stage staff, a singer (as in modern times), a barber (in the great dictator), a broken king (a king in New York), a gold seeker (gold rush of course), a waiter (in many shorts, also modern times), a factory worker etc. In this film Chaplin is a very qualified brick workman, the gags are incredible. Chaplins performance is unbelievable (do not mention this, I can believe everything amazing I heard about Chaplin). Meanwhile Chaplin is not the usual penniless tramp in this film. He works hard, he again does everything (even cruel)to take a job for a loaf of bread, but earns money, very talented in the job, however gets less money than he has to. He does not now to calculate, and of course is a henpecked. His wife Phyllis Allen (was 60 while shotting the film) is a nightmare for him, so bathtub is a wet but comfortable bed for him. This time Chaplin works with the oppression of his wife. I think this is one of the several best silents of Chaplin. It was also very clearly printed and was a great joy to watch it. Chaplin's keystones do not make me laugh, but in his newer films (like this) his genius smiles at us.