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City Lights. A reissue of Charlie Chaplin's 1931 classic about a tramp, a blind flower girl and a fickle millionaire (TIME, April...
City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 1931 classic about a tramp, a blind flower girl and a fickle millionaire (TIME, April...
...film presents Producer-Scripter-Composer-Director Chaplin in his classic role as a tramp with the instincts of a gentleman. He falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) who takes him for a handsome millionaire. To help her out of difficulties as he nurtures her illusion, Chaplin leans mostly on his acquaintance with a real' millionaire (the late Harry Myers), an eccentric who showers him with favors and affection while drunk and rejects him while sober...
...When the tramp finally gets the money needed by the blind girl for an eye operation, he is thrown unjustly into jail. After he gets out he finds the girl again, but this time, thanks to his generosity, she can see. The picture ends with a haunting scene: the heroine's shattering realization that her benefactor is the tramp, and his tremulously mixed reaction of joy and shame...
...Harpo's fans, at least two sequences should be enough to make the barren patches endurable. In one, the zany mute tramp leads three villains in a chase across the mid-Manhattan skyline, capering in & out of huge electric advertising displays that are ingeniously rigged to help him elude pursuit. The other sequence makes him the prisoner of international jewel thieves headed by Ilona Massey, whose decolletage plunges low enough to give even Hollywood a touch of the bends...