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From film critics Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza's new book 'The Greatest Movies Ever,' their picks for the 50 greatest films
"It's a solo flight of comic invention that comes at you like some kind of clown miracle," Kinn and Piazza write of the 1931 film directed by star Charlie Chaplin. "And its elaborate slapstick sequences became templates for thousands of films that followed."
According to Turner Classic Movies, Chaplin initially wanted to make the movie entirely silent, but he decided to put music in the film after "talking pictures" caught on.
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