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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.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.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.
Charles Chaplin
- A Tramp
- (as Charlie Chaplin)
Al Ernest Garcia
- The Millionaire's Butler
- (as Allan Garcia)
Johnny Aber
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Jack Alexander
- Boxing Match Spectator
- (uncredited)
T.S. Alexander
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Victor Alexander
- Superstitious Boxer
- (uncredited)
Albert Austin
- Street Sweeper
- (uncredited)
- …
Harry Ayers
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Eddie Baker
- Boxing Fight Referee
- (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
- Mayor
- (uncredited)
- …
Edward Biby
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Buster Brodie
- Bald Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Jeanne Carpenter
- Diner in Restaurant
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Charles Chaplin
- Harry Carr(uncredited)
- Harry Crocker(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaSir Charles Chaplin invited Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa to join him at the Los Angeles premier on January 30, 1931. When the house lights came up, Chaplin was surprised to see Einstein's eyes tearing at the final scene. Chaplin said in his autobiography that he had not known Einstein to be so "sentimental."
- Goofs(at around 50 mins) When the man swallows part of the Tramp's soap and starts spraying bubbles, the tube used to spray the bubbles is clearly visible behind him.
- Quotes
The Tramp: You can see now?
A Blind Girl: Yes, I can see now.
- Alternate versionsAbout seven minutes of footage of Georgia Hale playing the flower girl exists and is included in the 2003 DVD release. The footage was shot during a brief period when the actress originally cast to play the character had been fired and replaced with Hale, but Charles Chaplin was forced to resume filming with the original actress due to the amount of film already shot.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)
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Amusing comedy sets up SPECTACULAR ending
This is my favorite Chaplin film, but I don't want that to diminish his other work, either. MODERN TIMES was an outstanding work of social satire, THE GOLD RUSH was great slapstick, and even the largely-neglected MONSIEUR VERDOUX strikes a certain unforgettable tone. Chaplin didn't make a bad movie, and I'm not even sure that CL is his best, exactly. But it IS my favorite, if only for the ending.
That ending has been the subject of much comment here. I think it's a masterpiece in a single scene. Chaplin's little tramp has never seemed less like a character and more like a living, breathing human being. It's a monument to understated sentimentality.
To me, the rest of the film exists largely to set the context for that one magnificent piece of celluloid. Yes, the boxing scene is great, and the scene where he rescues the millionaire is also wonderful, but it's that ending that makes us all love this movie.
That ending has been the subject of much comment here. I think it's a masterpiece in a single scene. Chaplin's little tramp has never seemed less like a character and more like a living, breathing human being. It's a monument to understated sentimentality.
To me, the rest of the film exists largely to set the context for that one magnificent piece of celluloid. Yes, the boxing scene is great, and the scene where he rescues the millionaire is also wonderful, but it's that ending that makes us all love this movie.
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- Dec 6, 2004
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- Also known as
- City Lights: A Comedy Romance in Pantomime
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- Budget
- $1,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,181
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,102
- Jul 8, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $50,419
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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