“Of all comedies ever made, City Lights is the best; (Chaplin's) best, probably anybody's best. It's one of the few broad comedy pictures that packs an emotional wallop.” --Woody Allen.
City Lights traces the little tramp's efforts to restore sight to a pretty young flower seller. “The film was released as a silent (Chaplin halted production halfway through to consider switching to sound) even though sound pictures had then been in existence for some four years. Jean Harlow, who by the time the film was released was a star, appears as an extra in the night-club sequence.” --R.A.E.P.