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As his own producer and distributor (part owner of United Artists), Chaplin could still conceive City Lights as a silent film. Technically the film was a crossover, as its soundtrack had synchronized music and sound effects but no spoken dialogue.
Dec 21, 1997 · When he made it, three years into the era of sound, Chaplin must have known that “City Lights” might be his last silent film; he considered making a talkie, but decided against it, and although the film has a full musical score (composed by Chaplin) and sound effects, it has no speech.
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City Lights, American silent romantic-comedy film, released in 1931, that was considered by many to be Charlie Chaplin’s crowning achievement in the cinema.
In this simple story the Tramp (played by Chaplin) befriends a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and convinces her that he is a wealthy man. Through his generosity, she finally receives the operation that restores her sight, but by then the tragedy-prone Tramp is doing a stretch in prison. In the famous final sequence, the Tramp pays a visit to her flower shop. Her gradual realization that this pathetic man is her true benefactor has been called one of the most touching moments in film history.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director, producer, writer, and music: Charlie Chaplin
•Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp)
•Virginia Cherrill (Blind Girl)
•Florence Lee (Blind Girl’s Grandmother)
•Harry Myers (Millionaire)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Feb 2, 2024 · Against all commercial odds, Chaplin gambled everything on City Lights, a silent film that bucked the trend and stands as one of the great landmarks in cinema. Filmed eighty years apart, The...
- Bill Demain
City Lights: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia. With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Charles Chaplin
- 1931-03-07
Sep 27, 2021 · CITY LIGHTS, Chaplin’s vital reinforcement of the silent cinema art form four years after its end was sung out of Al Jolson’s blackface-d mouth, is often cited as the...
City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and ...
