Film audiences of 1947 were not entirely impressed with the way Chaplin's character had a hand in shortening the lives of his wives. His portrayal of a man that dislikes women and the world is impressively authentic. However if there is one Chaplin film which has matured with the passage of time it is this one. He did of course make a triumphant return. A Countess from Hong Kong is notable only because it was the last from a legend.
Some people age rather more rapidly than others.
William Holden died at the age of 63. I am now closer to the age when this seems like too young to die rather than at the age when I considered a ten year old to be as old as the hills. His looks probably had a deal to do with the premature ageing fluid he consumed in considerable quantities. Certainly the car accident he was involved in which left an innocent bystander dead might possibly be linked with the falling down water. In his later years he became something of a disaster movie star in every sense of that phrase.