- BFI identifier52758
- Date1931 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisComedy. Story of a tramp, who meets a drunken millionaire; and falls in love with a blind flower girl. (Synopsis)
- Work historyOnscreen title card reads 'City Lights A comedy romance in pantomime'.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Charles Chaplin Corporation
Production Company: United Artists
view all - CastVirginia Cherrill (blind girl)
Florence Lee (blind girl's grandmother)
Harry Myers (eccentric millionaire)
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