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Produced by Charles Chaplin and Jerome Epstein
Written by Charles Chaplin
Music by Charles Chaplin
Stars :
Marlon Brando ........ Odgen Mears
Sophia Loren .......... Natascha
Sydney Earle Chaplin ............. Harvey
Tippi Hedren ........... Martha
Patrick Cargill .......... Hudson
Michael Medwin....... John Felix
John Paul ................ Captain
Margaret Rutherford ................. Miss Gaulswallow
Angela Scoular ....... Society girl
Geraldine Chaplin ............Girl at dance
Charles Chaplin......... An old stewar
A Countess from Hong Kong was a 1967 comedy film and the last film directed by Charles Chaplin. It was one of only two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role
(the other was 1923's A Woman of Paris), and his only color film. The film was a financial and critical failure.
Marlon Brando plays a wealthy American diplomat aboard a cruise ship which docks in Hong Kong. A countess (Sophia Loren) comes aboard and smuggles herself in Brando's
closet. Brando spends the rest of the film trying to hide her and avoid the press; almost the entire 2-hour film takes place in his majestic stateroom.
Chaplin directs with his usual grace, favoring long shots and comedy at a distance. He also provided the sweet, sentimental score and appears in a small cameo as a seasick
steward.
Tippi Hedren co-stars as Brando's almost-divorced wife, and a young, adorable Geraldine Chaplin has one line in a ballroom scene.
Brando reportedly did not get along with Chaplin, and most critics used that as fodder for panning the film, though the conflict does not show in the final product. Most of all, A Countess from Hong Kong caused a lot of trouble for auteur critics in 1967.They didn't want to pan Chaplin's final film, but they also couldn't say it was any good.
almost universally disliked, the success of the song made back the money spent on the film.
Words & Music by Charlie Chaplin
Recorded by Petula Clark, 1967 (#3)
INTRO VERSE
C Am Cdim CM7/6
Why is my heart so light?
C Cdim Dm7 G7
Why are the stars so bright?
G7 Dm7 Cdim Dm7 G7
Why is the sky so blue
Cdim Dm7 Cdim C G
Since the hour I met you?
C Am Cdim CM7/6
Flowers are smi - ling bright
C Cdim Dm7 G7
Smiling for our delight
G7 Dm7 Cdim Dm7 G7
Smiling so ten - der - ly
Cdim Dm7 Cdim C G
For the world, you and me
BRIDGE
C Cdim Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 Cdim C
I know why the world is smiling, smiling so ten - der - ly
A A7 Dm Dm+7 D D7 G7
It hears the same old story through all e - ter - ni - ty
MELODY
C CM7 C C9 CM7
Love, this is my song
CM7/6 CM7 C CM7/6 Cdim Dm7 G7
Here is a song, a ser - e - nade to you
G7 Cdim G7
The world can - not be wrong
Bm7-5 G7 Fdim C
If in this world there is you
C9 Am Em7 F
I care not what the world may say;
G7 Cdim G7 Fdim C
With - out your love there is no day.
G C CM7 C C9 CM7
So, Love, this is my song,
CM7/6 CM7 C CM7/6 Cdim Dm7 G7 C
Here is a song, a ser - e - nade to you.
