NOTE: Watch Adolfo Acosta on Turner Classic Movies, introducing CITY LIGHTS with Ben Manciewicz, this Sunday, October 14 at 11 AM CT/12 PM ET On today’s adventure, Adolfo and Mark go back to the silent era for Charles Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS (1931)! The film that got Adolfo a fan programmer spot on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES(!) On this week’s show: Discovering Charlie Chaplin movies. The best introduction to Chaplin Silent films in the “Talkie” era CITY LIGHTS isn’t really a “silent” film Chaplin’s reluctance to transition to talking pictures How the film was originally conceived The hate-hate relationship between Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill The butler is a jerk Chaplin’s favorite scene in the film “Can you see now?” FILMS REFERENCED: THE KID (1921) THE GOLD RUSH (1925) THE JAZZ SINGER (1927) MODERN TIMES (1936) GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947) BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) LIMELIGHT (1952) SALO OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975) LINKS: SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER: @EssentialFilms, @FPMoviePodcast, @Adolfo_Acosta, @Sportsguy515 FACEBOOK: The Essential Films