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Having just seen this very great picture of the beloved 1050s, I can just declare that this picture is one of the best I´ve seen in the last years. What a script, including so many tear-jearking one-liners. Brillant directing!!! Wonderful actors and actresses, being at the peak of their artificial ailities. Brynner is so much wonderful. Heston even the better, portraying a General who has become a legend many - or at least - a few years ago. One must admire Bloom and Stevens. Congrats - from Vienna, Austria, to the American people and artists: At that time, you were at your best!!!

How much I am sad that my English is not strong enough to express how much I adore this motion picture. I´ve seen it only two times in my lifetime but both times I was so much touched that I had to cry 1000 tears. What a genius this man Leo McCarey was - the way he directed his actors, his timing, the way he brought intense and warm emotions to his audience. His way of directing the camera - as Hitchcock told: do not show what has not to be shown. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in brillant performances!!! THX from Vienna!!!

How tender and touching is the last, wonderful scene of this all-time classic - the girl telling the tramp "Yes, now I can see." "City Lights" will remain one of the best, most inspiring and funniest movies in the memory of audiences as long as at least one person will love cinema. Both Chaplin's directing and score are marvelous. The way Chaplin brought the character of the tramp to the canvas once more can hardly be topped, presenting such a precise yet relaxed kind of acting to the viewers. Virginia Cherrill, his love interest, is just wonderful. Hard to believe that she and Chaplin could not stand each other, as the story goes. A movie to be watched again and again and again...