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Long-lost Chaplin film to debut at Virginia festival
By BRETT ZONGKER | ASSOCIATED PRESS
A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges from the bushes in police uniform and that unforgettable mustache.
The 1914 film, A Thief Catcher, was missing for so many years that everyone forgot Charlie Chaplin made a brief cameo as a buffoon Keystone cop, with all his familiar twitches and gestures.