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- 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.
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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.
- $4.25 million (worldwide rentals)
- Charlie Chaplin
- $1.5 million
- January 30, 1931
Summaries. 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. A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble.
City Lights Synopsis. A group of civic dignitaries are assembled for the unveiling of a monument representing “Peace and Prosperity”. The veil falls - to reveal, cradled in the arms of “Prosperity”, the wretched figure of the Tramp.
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.
- (192K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Charles Chaplin
- 1931-03-07
Dec 21, 1997 · Roger Ebert December 21, 1997. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. If only one of Charles Chaplin's films could be preserved, “City Lights” (1931) would come the closest to representing all the different notes of his genius. It contains the slapstick, the pathos, the pantomime, the effortless physical coordination, the melodrama ...
City Lights Summary. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights begins with the Tramp sleeping on a monument honoring "Peace and Prosperity," as it is unveiled to the public. He slides down the sculpture. He gets in a fight with two newsboys who taunt him for his clothes, then admires a nude statue in a shop window, getting into precarious slapstick ...
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.
