City Lights 1931 123movies

Watch: City Lights 1931 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.
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	99/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Charlo at the top of his game.
Charlie Chaplin made some extremely funny shorts but of his longer films, this is one of the best, along with “The Gold Rush” and “Modern Times.” Two stories are woven together. One is Charlie’s on-again off-again friendship with a wealthy drunk. The guy has a case of multiple personality. When drunk he showers Charlie with friendship and gifts. When he’s sober he doesn’t recognize Charlie at all.

The second story involves a pretty, blind flower girl who, given certain distances, angles, and lighting, resembles Uma Thurman. Charlie falls for her and accepts a thousand dollars from the drunken rich guy in order to pay for the operation that will refurbish her eyeballs.

Charlie is accused of stealing the thousand bucks but when he appeals to the rich guy, he’s sober and won’t support Charlie’s story. Charlie manages to get the money to the girl anyway but then is picked up by the police and spends some time in jail. When he emerges from the Crowbar Hotel, broke and bitter, he bumps into the now sighted girl and she recognizes him by his voice and the feel of his hands. The happy ending.

There’s sentimentality in the story of course. There often is in Chaplin’s later films. But, as usual, it’s somehow tempered. Here, it’s undercut by irony.

When Charlie meets the wealthy toff, the guy is about to kill himself because his wife left him. He ties a noose around his neck and a big rock to the other end of the rope. He’s about to hurl himself and the rock into the river when Charlie intervenes, gives him a pep talk, and changes his mind. His spirit revived, the rich guy spread his arms to the sky, dropping the boulder that falls on Charlie’s foot.

And when Chaplin meets the blind flower girl, she’s enthralled by his gentleness. Unseen by her, the smitten Charlie tip toes behind her to the nearby water fountain where she fills a pail. Her expression is dreamy and far away as the pail fills. Charlie is sitting on a bench next to the fountain, himself enraptured. Then she empties the pail by throwing the water in Charlie’s face. Well, it’s not the blind Mr. Muckle busting all the light bulbs in W. C. Fields’ general store, but what is? A note. There have been some comic prize fights recorded on film, not counting the Dempsey-Tunney debacle, but I don’t think any are as funny as the one Chaplin has choreographed here.

It’s hard to imagine the kind of talent that could pull off a story like this in a medium like this. Black and white, and silent. Applause, please.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 27 min (87 min)
Budget 1500000
Revenue 4250000
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker
Actors Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Silent, Mono (musical score)
Aspect Ratio 1.20 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,365 m (1972) (Sweden), 2,399 m (Sweden, cut version), 2,405 m (Sweden, uncut version), 2,467 m (9 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm