A King in New York (1957)

SYNOPSIS

Chaplin made this bitter story of a deposed European king who observes the American scene, bewildered, in England, and it was widely viewed at the time as an attack on the country that made him an international superstar. Chaplin had a knack for annoying American Babbits, going all the way back to his marriages to teenage actresses in the teens and '20s. But it was his pacifist movie Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and his early, outspoken calls to open a Russian front in WWII that aroused the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Though he wired the committee that he had never belonged to any political party, he was informed while aboard a ship sailing for London that he would not be readmitted to the U.S. without testifying as to his moral fitness. He remained exiled in Switzerland until returning in 1972 to accept a special Academy Award for his contribution to movie history. A King in New York was finally released in the U.S. in 1973.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).