Napoleon's Return from St. Helena : an Historical Fantasy : A Dramatic Composition in Three Acts/written by Charles Chaplin [...] in collaboration with John Strachey

The project of a film about the life of Napoleon dates back to the 1920's. Chaplin's interest in the subject reawakens after the release of "City Lights". In 1934 he involves the British journalist Alistair Cooke to help him with the historic research for the script. In 1935 Count Jean de Limur is entrusted with its film adaptation, but Chaplin is not satisfied with it because the script does not include a consistent part for Paulette Goddard. The new script is created together with John Strachey, a young left-wing British intellectual.