A Countess From Hong Kong (1967 Box Office Flop)
The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the year’s biggest flop, Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess From Hong Kong. Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin and starring Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren and Patrick Cargill, A Countess From Hong Kong was Chaplin’s final film before his death.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/17/archives/screen-a-countess-from-hong-kongnew-movie-by-chaplin-opens-at-the.html), Wendy Michener in Maclean’s (https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1967/5/1/liz-taylor-makes-a-perfect-shrew), and Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice.
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up.
