When the world said goodbye to Charlie Chaplin in December 1977, few would have expected that his name would hit the headlines again just weeks later.But in March 1978, two disgruntled mechanics pushed the star of films including City Lights and the Gold Rush back into the limelight, albeit for a rather macabre reason.Heading to his graveside in Switzerland in the dead of night, they dug up his coffin and whisked it away before demanding a huge $600,000 (£400,000 at the time) ransom from his family.
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