Chaplin talked a good deal at this time about bringing back the Tramp. To another interviewer in 1959 he said: «I was wrong to kill him. There was room for the Little Man in the atomic age». His interest in the character had been reawakened by working on A Dog’s Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, which, with the assistance of Jerry Epstein, he edited and re-assembled as The Chaplin Revue. As severe as ever in the cutting room, he took out moments which he thought no longer worked well. […] Throughout the work Oona sat beside him, sewing, and he complained humorously that whenever he wanted to throw out some scene, she pleaded for its retention. Chaplin wrote and recorded a new score for the assembly, and for The Pilgrim composed a country pastiche, «Bound for Texas», which was recorded by a then popular singer, Matt Munro. The Chaplin Revue was released in September 1959.

David Robinson, Chaplin. His Life and Art, Glasgow/London, William Collins Sons & Co., 1985