- Year :
- 1931
- Cast :
- Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Eddie Baker, Allan Garcia, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin, Joe Van Metter, Robert Parrish, Charlie Hammond, Tiny Ward, Mrs. Hyams, Harry Ayers, Florence Wicks, Jean Harlow...
- Production :
- United Artists
- Description :
- Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man. The Tramp later saves a drunken millionaire who is attempting to drown himself in the river. The millionaire becomes his best friend. That is, until he sobers up and no longer recognizes the Tramp… In City Lights, friendship and social ranking are not always as they seem. We enter a world of a disenchanted bourgeoisie, where a tramp is king and a blind girl, queen.
- DVD & Blu-ray :
- DVD & blu-ray on Amazon US Blu-ray on Amazon UK DVD on Amazon IT blu-ray on Amazon FR DVD on Amazon FR
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Restoration of City Lights Score
An interview with Timothy Brock who restored the score to "City Lights"
City Lights Synopsis
A group of civic dignitaries are assembled for the unveiling of a monument representing "Peace and Prosperity". The veil falls - to reveal, cradled in the arms of "Prosperity", the wretched figure of the Tramp...
Filming City Lights
"City Lights" proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin's career...
Beautiful Wonderful Eyes
It is thought that this song was composed with this film in mind, but the theme is not used in the "City Lights" score...
Deleted scene from City Lights
Charlie tries to disengage a sliver of wood stuck in a sidewalk grating
Extract of draft typescript of “A Comedian Sees the World” by Charles Chaplin, 1932
"It took three weeks to synchronize my picture City Lights and I can assure you it was a most nerve-racking experience."