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A music video of three Charlie Chaplin movies, “The Gold Rush”, “City Lights”, and “Modern Times” to the song “One Day She’ll Love Me” sung by Sting and Shawn Colvin.

One of the most famous bits in film history, and its still wonderful.
Its New Years Eve in the frozen north during the great gold rush. In a cabin on the outskirts of a mountain town, one Charlie Chaplin, house sitting for a new friend, entertains his major crush and her friends. He is a big hit with his guests and they call for a speech. “I can’t make a speech” says the shy little fellow, “but I’ll do a dance”.
“And a dance he did with the rolls”…

In Between Showers, Chaplin and Sterling play two young men, Masher and Mirval Masher, who fight over the chance to help a young woman, played by Emma Bell Clifton, cross a muddy street. Eventually a police officer, played by Chester Conklin, arrests Mirval.

Michael Jackson rendition.

“A day without a laugh is a wasted day.” – Charles Chaplin

inal Scene Of City Lights Where Virginia Cherrill Recognises Charles Chaplin (Her Benefactor Whom She Supposes To Be Rich And Handsome) By Touch..

he ending is widely acclaimed as one of cinema’s most touching. The tramp, released from jail, ends up on the same street corner where the flower girl, her sight restored, has opened up a flower shop with her grandmother; every time a rich man comes into the shop she wonders if this is her mysterious benefactor. The tramp spots a flower in the gutter and as he goes to pick it up is tormented by a couple of kids as the flower girl laughs. Then he turns around, sees her, and stops. She laughs and tells her grandmother she has made another conquest. Seeing the flower fall apart in his hand, she goes out to give him a flower and a coin–and then she touches his hand and stops when she realizes it feels familiar. Slowly her hand goes up to touch the face of the tramp. “You?” she says as she realizes that the tramp before her is the reason she can see. “Yes” replies the nervous tramp, his face a map of shame, pride, love and devotion. “You can see now?,” he asks. “Yes. I can see now,” she replies (in later prints Chaplin removed the last title card since it was obvious what she is saying). The film ends with an unusual close up of the tramp and the music continues to swell for some time after the shot fades to black.

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin’s romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was presumed a lost film for 50 years until a rather good complete nitrate copy was discovered in South America. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was then copied and its original two reel format is available for sale… or right here on richardland.com

Cruel Cruel Love (1914)
Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Eva Nelson.
Directed by George Nichols, Mack Sennett

The tramp (Chaplin), works small jobs like street sweeping, and enters a boxing contest, all to raise money for an operation to restore the sight of a blind flower girl he’s fallen in love with and who mistakenly thinks he is wealthy.