The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published

Exclusive: Fantasy about a beautiful creature with wings' has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches

He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema's first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces.

Now the script of Charlie Chaplin's unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88.