Charles Chaplin's The Freak

The Freak is the legendary Charlie Chaplin's last, and perhaps most mysterious, film project - an ambitious tale that came within a hair's breadth of being made. Conceived in 1968, when Chaplin was nearly eighty, the story centers on Sarapha, a young woman with wings, both miraculous and vulnerable, who becomes a mirror for humanity's fears, faiths, and cruelties.

For the first time in the original English, this book publishes Chaplin's complete script alongside a wealth of unseen material: ...