“Melancholy Chaplin masterpiece which traces the efforts of the little tramp to restore the sight of a pretty young flower seller. In many ways Chaplin's best film, at once excruciatingly funny and terribly sad, and containing several quite memorable scenes, e.g. the boxing match with Hank Mann, the street-cleaning sequences, and the final almost unbearably poignant moments when Chaplin meets the girl for the first time after her sight has been restored. 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 a night-club sequence.”