The story of a tramp in love with a blind flower girl, Charles Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS is one of the cinema's greatest and most durable masterpieces. Billed by Chaplin as "a comedy romance in pantomime," the film was a daring venture for its maker: a silent movie released months after
Hollywood had converted totally to sound.
A tramp (Charles Chaplin) buys a flower from a lovely blind street peddler (Virginia Cherrill) with his last piece of change. That night he encounters an inebriated millionaire (Harry Myers) in the act of doing away with himself. After the tramp talks him out of it, the grateful millionaire treats
him to a night on the town. The next mornin...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins