City Lights

Charlie Chaplin · 1931 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

The tramp falls for a blind flower seller who takes him for a millionaire and does not correct her. He keeps up the pretense on money from a drunk who knows him at night and not by day, while looking for work to pay for an operation on her eyes. Chaplin's last silent picture, made two years into the sound era.

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