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Aspect Ratio 1.33:1 |
| Subtitles: |
French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Russian
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| Release Date: |
22 September 2003 |
| Availability: |
Temporarily out of stock | This item will be dispatched as soon as it arrives
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City Lights begins with an uproarious skewering of pomp and formality, ends with one of the most famous last shots in movie history and, from start to finish, so completely touches the heart and tickles the funny bone that in 1998 it was named one of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films.
Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the film-making tide with this forever classic that's silent except for music and sound effects. The story, involving the Tramp's attempts to get money for an operation that will restore sight to a blind flower girl, provides the star with an ideal framework for sentiment and laughs. The Tramp is variously a street sweeper, a boxer, a rich poseur, and a rescuer of a suicidal millionaire. His message is unspoken, but universally understood: love is blind.
Special Features
- Introduction by David Robinson - Chaplin's biographer discussed the historical
- Chaplin today - City Lights - Documentary by Serge Bromberg with the particip
- Out - takes - Charlie tries to disengage a sliver of wood stuck in a sidewalk
- The Champion (1915) - Excerpt
- Shooting:
- Gerogia Hale screen test:
- The Dream Prince:
- Rehearsal:
- Chaplin & boxing stars:
- Winston Churchill's visit:
- Chaplin speaks!
- Trip to Bali.
- Trailers.
- Film posters
- Photo gallery.
- The Chaplin collection.
- Interactive Menus.
- Scene Access.
