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  • Title: City Lights
  • Summary: The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl with whom he has fallen in love.
  • Director: Charles Chaplin
  • Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann
  • Year: 1931
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  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Blindness, Charlie, Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Fanaa, Magnificent Obsession, Seventh Continent, Tommy, Zatoichi
  • Language: Silent
  • Country: USA
  • Comments: The DVD includes an introduction by David Robinson (5 minutes), a documentary about the film ("Chaplin Today: City Lights," 26 minutes), a deleted scenes, an excerpt from "The Champion" (1915, 10 minutes), behind-the-scenes footage (8 minutes), Georgia Hale screen test (7 minutes), ehearsal of a scene (1 minute), Chaplin with boxers, Chaplin with Winston Churchill, Chaplin speaking in Vienna (1931, 3 minutes), Chaplin in Bali, photographs, posters and trailers. American Film Institute 100 American Films: #11 Cahiers du Cinema Best Film #17 British Film Institute Top 250 Films (2012): #50 Toronto International Film Festival 100: #29
  • Collection: Silent