City Lights 1931 N/R, 87 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow, Al Ernest Garcia, T.S. Alexander, Henry Bergman, Eddie McAuliffe, Granville Redman, Willie Keeler, Robert Parrish, Robert Graves, Tom Dempsey
This highly entertaining film is classic Charlie Chaplin fare. The plot involves the Little Tramp's love for a blind, flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). The story involves a comedy of mistaken identities in which an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) only recognizes the Little Tramp when he has been drinking. After a night of drinking, the millionaire gives the Little Tramp $1,000 for the flower girl's rent. After a few misadventures involving burglars in the millionaire's home, the Little Tramp gives the flower girl the money to pay for her rent and an eye operation. The operation is performed, and, later, the Little Tramp sees her through her window and shyly smiles. She goes outside and gives him money and a flower. She recognizes him as her benefactor and all ends happily when she tells him, "I can see."
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Easy Money 1936 N/R, 70 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Phil Rosen Cast: Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker, Noel Madison, Allen Vincent, Barbara Barondess, Wallis Clark, Selmer Jackson, Robert Homans, Robert Graves, John Kelly, Robert Frazer, Barbara Bedford
Prosecuting attorney Dan Adams (Onslow Stevens) resigns his position and goes undercover working to get the goods on a gang of fake-accident racketeers, and, in the process, his brother Eddie (Allen Vincent) is murdered by the gangsters. With Eddie's death, Dan's assistant Carol Carter (Kay Linaker) comes up with key evidence against the gang, but gang leader "Duke" Trotti (Noel Madison) has plans to do away with Carol before she can implicate them.
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| 1. City Lights (1931)
2. Easy Money (1936)
3. Forbidden (1932)
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