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City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects.
City Lights, American silent romantic-comedy film, released in 1931, that was considered by many to be Charlie Chaplin’s crowning achievement in the cinema. In this simple story the Tramp (played by Chaplin) befriends a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and convinces her that he is a wealthy man.
Dec 21, 1997 · In “City Lights” we can see the invention and humanity that coexist in his films. The movie contains some of Chaplin’s great comic sequences, including the famous prize fight in which the Tramp uses his nimble footwork to always keep the referee between himself and his opponent.
City Lights: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia. With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
City Lights proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin’s career. By the time it was completed he had spent two years and eight months on the work, with almost 190 days of actual shooting. The marvel is that the finished film betrays nothing of this effort and anxiety.
Feb 2, 2024 · It’s a story that echoes the real-life dilemma faced by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1920s. Against all commercial odds, Chaplin gambled everything on City Lights, a silent film that bucked the...
The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire.
