Charlie Chaplin: CITY LIGHTS - 1/9 (Please watch in HQ!)

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City Lights is a film to pick for the time capsule, a film that best represents the many aspects of director-writer-star Charles 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 ...