A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate Blu-ray

Release Year: 1923

Runtime: 82 min

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Cast: Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French

Studios: Charles Chaplin Productions

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration of the 1976 rerelease version

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack featuring a score composed by director Charlie Chaplin.

Alternate score

from 2005 created by conductor Timothy Brock, based on music by Chaplin, presented in uncompressed stereo.

Introduction by Chaplin scholar David Robinson

New video essay by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance

Chaplin Today: 'A Woman of Paris'

featuring interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Michael Powell.

Archive Commentary: About 'A Woman of Paris,'

a documentary by Arnold Lozano, managing director of Roy Export S.A.S. Excerpts from an audio interview with Chaplin Studios cinematographer Roland Totheroh.

Deleted shots from the original 1923 film

Archival footage

Trailers

PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson and notes by Brock on the 2005 score