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Charles Chaplin’s much anticipated follow-up to his classic “The Gold Rush” would normally be expected to have been a stand alone feature. However, for its second Regent attraction, Hoyts took the somewhat surprising decision to present ‘the greatest program in the history of Australian entertainment’, pairing UA’s “The Circus” with the now classic sci-fi “Metropolis”. This German feature was the first in a series of UFA productions released by their newly opened Australian distribution arm Cinema Art Films Ltd. It is unlikely that Mr. Chaplin would have been keen to share his takings, so Fritz Lang’s stylized futuristic oddity may well have been provided for next to nothing, and used as a loss leader for the Cinema Art company to enter the Australian market (the firm soon folded).