Chaplin also added extra footage including clips from World War I to express the context.

Unfortunately for Chaplin though, he fell victim to McCarthyism, and in the 1950s he lived in exile in Switzerland with his wife Oona O'Neill.

His latest three films, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, and A King in New York, were not universally acclaimed, and his star power was fading.

Critic and friend James Agee wrote a script placing Chaplin's trademark character, the Tramp, in apocalyptic New York City.

Originally released in the USA in October 1918, the relatively short black and white silent film ran for 46 minutes and finds Charlie playing the new recruit in the war effort against the Germans.

An escaped convict (Chaplin) dons the vesture of a clergyman and is mistakenly appointed as the new pastor of the small town of Devil's Gulch.

After acquainting himself with a local mother and daughter, and subsequently moving in with them, one of his former buddies from prison arrives and steals from the two women.

Walter Kerr in The Silent Clowns declares that the "cadence of all three films, and of Chaplin's work in them, is utterly destroyed.