Conventional Thinking
On Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin’s 1993 'The Last Party'
Early on in The Last Party, Robert Downey, Jr. pays a visit to the lot of the former Charlie Chaplin Studios, a Tudor-styled structure built by the actor-director in 1917, and at the time of the documentary’s shoot in fall of 1992, the headquarters for A & M Studios. Downey, Jr., who has just played Chaplin in a lugubrious Richard Attenborough biopic to…