The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl, who through a series of coincidences has gotten the impression that the shabby Tramp is a millionaire, and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire. The Tramp's on-and-off friendship with the millionaire allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
13 December 1882, Birmingham, England, UK
5 September 1882, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11 March 1887, San Francisco, California, USA
12 April 1908, Carthage, Illinois, USA
19 November 1871, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
28 May 1887, New York City, New York, USA
January 21, 1915 in Denver, Colorado, USA
4 January 1916, Columbus, Georgia, USA
October 22, 1888 in New York City, New York, USA
23 February 1868, San Francisco, California, USA
November 17, 1897 in Davis, West Virginia, USA
3 March 1911, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
February1864, South Carolina, USA
16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
January 10, 2016
City Lights is a paean to our best impulses, a plea for humanitarianism and justice.
January 04, 2008
With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit.
December 19, 2007
Is this film still funny after 76 years? I think and hope it is.
January 29, 2016
"City Lights" is excruciatingly funny and terribly, terribly sad. It makes you chuckle hysterically. You have the greatest time imaginable, and yet, occasionally you find little hurty lumps in your throat.
June 27, 2007
The British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known.
January 18, 2013
Chaplin's growing seriousness, his desire to be more than a mere comedian have deceived him into holding sentiment more precious than fun.
April 28, 2012
City Lights gets to the heart of the Tramp. It is a beautiful romance about loving someone for who they are and not their social or economic status - and it features one of the most tear inducing and iconic endings in Hollywood history.
November 19, 2013
There's dignity and folly to The Tramp in City Lights, and everything in between.
April 18, 2014
No filmmaker has ever been as successful as Chaplin in tugging at our heartstrings while simultaneously leaving us helpless in laughter, and this gem finds him operating at the peak of his abilities, even throwing his usual social critique into the mix.
January 02, 2011
A screen gem. Youngsters and up.
March 04, 2008
That final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach.
June 27, 2007
A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes. The two halves of the film are sentiment and slapstick. They are not blended but woven into a pattern as eccentric as it is sublime.
