Subtitle of John Wranovics' book is "the untold story of the tramp, the writer and the lost screenplay." This is misleading. There is no lost screenplay but rather a lost opportunity to collaborate on a treatment Agee wrote with Chaplin in mind. It's a dark post-nuclear war story, expressing Agee's moral outrage at Hiroshima.
Chaplin and Agee, more mutual admirers than friends, became closer after Agee praised a late Chaplin film disliked by almost everyone else. The project never got far but this book publishes Agee's treatment and notes and does a good job of telling Agee's growing obsession for collaboration in the context of the times.
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Chaplin and Agee, more mutual admirers than friends, became closer after Agee praised a late Chaplin film disliked by almost everyone else. The project never got far but this book publishes Agee's treatment and notes and does a good job of telling Agee's growing obsession for collaboration in the context of the times.
