City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
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Actor: Betty Blair, Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Jack Alexander (III), Virginia CherrillDirector: Charles Chaplin
Brand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Charles Chaplin
Primary Contributor: Virginia Cherrill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: A one-man virtuoso performance ...
Summary: 4 Stars
Once again Chaplin plays his famous creation, the beloved Tramp... The noble Little Fellow meets and falls in love with a blind flower girl... She assumes he is wealthy man and offers him a flower, which he attentively accepts with his last penny...
One night by chance he rescues a drunken millionaire from drowning... The rich gentleman becomes a generous friend when drunk but doesn't recognize the tramp when sober... Chaplin takes the blind girl under his wing, and takes flight with the millionaire's money to cure her blindness...
"City Lights" engaged a true genius in a graceful and touching performance which arouses profound feelings and joy with great simplicity of style and tragic tale... Each scene was the result of hard-working detail and planning...
Summary of City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that's silent except for music and sound effects. The story, involving the Tramp's attempts to get money for an operation that will restore sight to a blind flower girl, provides the star with an ideal framework for sentiment and laughs. The Tramp is variously a street sweeper, a boxer, a rich poseur, and a rescuer of a suicidal millionaire. His message is unspoken, but universally understood: love is blindCity Lights is a film to pick for the time capsule, a film that best represents the many aspects of director-writer-star Charlie Chaplin at the peak of his powers: Chaplin the actor, the sentimentalist, the knockabout clown, the ballet dancer, the athlete, the lover, the tragedian, the fool. It's all contained in Chaplin's simple story of a tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). Chaplin elevates the Victorian contrivances of the plot to something glorious with his inventive use of pantomime and his sure grasp of how the Tramp relates to the audience. In 1931, it was a gamble for Chaplin to stick with silence after talking pictures had killed off the art form that had made him famous, but audiences flocked to City Lights anyway. (Chaplin would not make his first full talking picture until 1940's The Great Dictator.) After all the superb comic sequences, the film culminates with one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema, a luminous and heartbreaking fade-out that lifts the picture onto another plane. (Woody Allen paid homage to the scene at the end of Manhattan.) This is why the term "Chaplinesque" became a part of the language. --Robert Horton
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