City Lights

City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).

City Lights was a pure silent film with no dialogues in it. It is a comedy movie, but it is still considered as the most emotional movie in the history of movies. In this movie, there was pure Chaplin style used in it which increased the budget of the movie and also increased the time to complete this movie. The total cost of making this movie was almost $1.5 million and earned about $4.25 million after its release, which shows it was very successful as in the past there was not much trend of watching films.

Detailed information:

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill

Release date: Mar 7, 1931

Budget: 1.5 Million

Box office: $4.25 Million