interesting King in NY review

A King in New York
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader


This is one of the few Chaplin films that needs a defense: for many people,
it's mawkish and shapeless, yet that same mawkishness and shapelessness are
also signs of freedom and directness, qualities that recall the wonderfully
casual Chaplin of the early Keystone shorts. Made in England in 1957, the
film gave Chaplin his last starring role; he plays a gentle king who, having
been unseated by a revolution in his own country, comes to New York in
search of a new life. What he finds instead is the House Un-American
Activities Committee. Though clearly based on Chaplin's own political exile,
the film is less bitter than touchingly bewildered, even when Chaplin is
aiming his satire at such broad targets as advertising and popular movies.
With Dawn Addams and Maxine Audley.