Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Charlie Chaplin, describing the silent film star and director's impoverished childhood in London and his rise to fame in Hollywood and within the film industry.

The boy in the blue overcoat -- Bleak houses -- Life in the booby hatch -- Life with father -- Poster boy -- On becoming invisible -- Enter, Sherlock -- Don't mug too much -- A red nose -- A tipsy gentleman -- A comedian among the orange groves -- The galloping tintypes -- The lens louse -- Mable, the movie star -- Opus one: the sleepwalker -- Charlie and the ten grand rumor -- Chaplin and the cross-eyed man -- The millionaire tramp -- Dawn on Sunset Boulevard -- A marriage of mayflies -- Where's Charlie? -- Room service -- The eternal washtub -- Deja woes -- Don't eat peanuts or drop shells on the floor -- Silence spoken here -- The impertinent gesture -- Five francs a glance -- The red flag -- Welcome to Tomania -- The vaporous Jew -- The cockney cad -- Throw the rascal out! -- So long, Charlie -- Takes and mistakes -- Brimstone in the air -- Sir Charlie -- A life in concrete.