City Lights
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. Through an on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man, he becomes the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Austen Jewell
Robert Parrish
Harry Crocker
Della Steele
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Virginia Cherrill charmingly plays a young, blind, flower seller whom the tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls for, hook line and sinker. Later that night, he is crossing a bridge when he encounters a suicidal, dipso, millionaire (Harry Myers) whom he convinces to hang about for a while longer, and who by way of appreciation invites him to a party at his mansion, then to a series of evening entertainments. Thing is, when he wakes up with the mother of all hangovers next morning, though, he has never a clue who the tramp is and so gets his butler to send him packing. Meantime, still determined to help his new love, our kindly vagrant reads in a newspaper that there might be might be a cure for her blindness - but it will be expensive. His boozy buddy offers him $1,000 to help but when, as usual in the morning, he sobers up and denies all knowledge of the "gift". The police are called and things now take a series of unhappy turns that force the tramp to think of other ways of raising the cash. This challenge is especially spurned on when he discovers that she has left her usual selling spot and is now quite poorly and being taken care of by her grandmother (Florence Lee) - and they are facing eviction. It's probably his attempts at boxing that provide for most of the entertainment here, but there are plenty of other humorous exploits - especially between him and Myers and the scenes with Cherrill are touching and joyous, too. Chaplin keeps the pace moving along well with plenty of variety in a film that's a gem to watch.
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The directors of City Lights are Austen Jewell, Robert Parrish, Harry Crocker, and Della Steele.
The cast of City Lights includes Hank Mann as A Prizefighter, Mark Strong as Man in Restaurant (uncredited), Jack Sutherland as Tall Man at Party (uncredited), Buster Brodie as Bald Party Guest (uncredited), George Nardelli as Nightclub Patron (uncredited), Edward Biby as Nightclub Patron (uncredited), Florence Wix as Woman Who Sits on Cigar (uncredited), Virginia Cherrill as A Blind Girl, Willie Keeler as Boxer (uncredited), Charles Hammond as Street Passerby (uncredited), Eddie Baker as Boxing Fight Referee (uncredited), Charlie Chaplin as A Tramp, and more.
The duration of City Lights is 1h 27 mins.
Yes. You can watch the City Lights trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
You can watch City Lights on Lionsgate Play (Subscription), Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel (Subscription), and Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel (Subscription). Check this Fanbiz page for the latest platforms.
City Lights was released on 06 Feb 1931.
City Lights is listed under Comedy, Drama, and Romance on Fanbiz.
City Lights has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Virginia Cherrill charmingly plays a young, blind, flower seller whom the tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls for, hook line and sinker. Later that night, he is crossing a bridge when..."
