City Lights
- Original title
- City Lights
- Year
- 1931
- Running time
- 81 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Charles Chaplin
- Virginia Cherrill
- Florence Lee
- Harry Myers
- Allan Garcia
- Hank Mann
- Jack Alexander
- Tom Dempsey
- Henry Bergman
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- Music
Charles Chaplin (Silent Movie)- Cinematography
Roland Totheroh, Gordon Pollock (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Romance | Silent Film. Poverty. Romantic Comedy. Comedy-Drama. Disability. Blindness
- Movie Groups
- The Little Tramp
- Synopsis
- The Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). She believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for the operation that could restore her sight.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1931: National Board of Review (NBR): Top 10 films
- Critics' reviews
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"A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes"
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"Contains some of Chaplin's great comic sequences"
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