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City Lights
Directed by
Charlie Chaplin
G
1931
87m
Comedy
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Drama
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8.5
95%
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8.3
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A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Cast of City Lights
Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor / Original Music Composer
Virginia Cherrill
A Blind Girl
Florence Lee
Her Grandmother
Harry Myers
An Eccentric Millionaire
Al Ernest Garcia
His Butler / Casting
Hank Mann
A Prizefighter
Albert Austin
Street Sweeper / Burglar (uncredited) / Assistant Director
Eddie Baker
Boxing Fight Referee (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
Mayor / Blind Girl's Downstairs Neighbor (uncredited) / Assistant Director
Buster Brodie
Bald Party Guest (uncredited)
Jeanne Carpenter
Diner in Restaurant (uncredited)
Tom Dempsey
Boxer (uncredited)
James Donnelly
Street Sweepers' Foreman (uncredited)
Ray Erlenborn
Newsboy (uncredited)
Robert Graves
Police Officer (uncredited)
Charles Hammond
Street Passerby (uncredited)
Joseph Herrick
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Austen Jewell
Newsboy (uncredited)
Willie Keeler
Boxer (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Newsboy (uncredited)
City Lights Ratings & Reviews
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
Chaplin and his cast have crafted a silent film that is drastically funny, extremely well-shot and still holds up today...this is a labor of love, for sure, but the end result is a classic that has held the test of time.
New York Daily News
Irene Thirer
"City Lights" is excruciatingly funny and terribly, terribly sad. It makes you chuckle hysterically. You have the greatest time imaginable, and yet, occasionally you find little hurty lumps in your throat.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
There's dignity and folly to The Tramp in City Lights, and everything in between.
The Nation
Alexander Bakshy
Chaplin's growing seriousness, his desire to be more than a mere comedian have deceived him into holding sentiment more precious than fun.
Common Sense Media
Scott G. Mignola
A screen gem. Youngsters and up.
Slant Magazine
Dan Jardine
This is one of those rare creatures, the work of a master craftsman in full control of his craft.
Film.com
Mark Bourne
That final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Is this film still funny after 76 years? I think and hope it is.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Perfect.
Variety
Sid Silverman
The British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes. The two halves of the film are sentiment and slapstick. They are not blended but woven into a pattern as eccentric as it is sublime.
Cinema Writer
Jay Antani
City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Incredibly powerful and heartbreaking ending.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Steve Crum
Absolutely delightful, hilarious, heart breaking Chaplin classic.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
A film worked out with admirable artistry.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
The quintessential Chaplin film — both the most perfectly crafted and the most representative of all the different textures and tones for which he is remembered.
The New Republic
Gilbert Seldes
Charlie Chaplin has created one of his masterpieces. I do not know whether to rank it before this or after that; it is a completely organized and a completely created whole which exists for itself without question and without comparison.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie contains some of Chaplin's great comic sequences.
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