8.5
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Comedy drama, Boxing, Old movies
Synopsis
A hapless but resilient tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) on the tough city streets. Upon learning that she and her grandmother are to be evicted from their home, the tramp undertakes a series of attempts to provide them with the money they need, all of which end in humiliating failure. But after a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) lavishly rewards him for saving his life, the tramp can change the flower girl's life forever.
Cast
A blind girl
Virginia Cherrill
A Tramp
Charlie Chaplin
An Eccentric Millionaire
Harry Myers
The blind girl's grandmother
Florence Lee
The eccentric millionaire's butler
Allan Garcia
A prizefighter
Hank Mann
Street sweeper / Eddie Mason, a crook (uncredited)
Albert Austin
Mayor / Blind Girl's downstairs neighbor (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
Extra in restaurant scene (uncredited)
Jean Harlow
Tramp who dives for cigar (uncredited)
John Rand
Steet sweepers foreman (uncredited)
James Donnelly
Robert Graves
Newsboy (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Austen Jewell
Willie Keeler
Distinguished gentleman in Cafe (uncredited)
Stanhope Wheatcroft
Granville Redmond
Extra in restaurant scene
Jean Carpenter
Eddie Baker
Director
