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City Lights

1931

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers ...

8.6

33,277

Comedy. Romance 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Contains some of Chaplin's great comic sequences"	POS
United States	Sid Silverman Variety	"It’s not Chaplin’s best picture, because the comedian has sacrificed speed to pathos (...) But the British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Both funny and touching, this showcases Chaplin at his best (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"It is a film worked out with admirable artistry, and while Chaplin stoops to conquer, as he has invariably done, he achieves success."	POS
United States	New York Daily News	"'City Lights' is excruciatingly funny and terribly, terribly sad. It makes you chuckle hysterically. You have the greatest time imaginable"	POS
United States	Slant	"Watching 'City Lights' (...) I felt increasingly aware of the purity of silence."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Brown Time Out	"There are plenty of great moments, and the occasional comic use of sound (...) is beautifully judged."	POS
	Scott Tobias	"There’s dignity and folly to The Tramp in 'City Lights', and everything in between (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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