Charlie Chaplin (1951)

cc 228 has just alighted, tries to sell him a flower. Charlie discovers she is blind when she gropes for the flower he accidentally knocks out of her hand. The little tramp gives her his last coin and tiptoes away. Smitten by this lovely girl, who has mistaken him for a millionaire, he steals back to sit near her in adoration, only to have her, unaware of his presence, douse him with water as she rinses her bucket at the corner fountain. "Evening." The blind girl returns to her slum room where she lives with her grandmother. She turns on a victrola and, hearing a fellow whistle to his girl, she wistfully waves out the window at the couple. "Night." Under a bridge by the river, a drunken, manic-depressive millionaire, in a moment of diunken remorse, resolves to drown himself. He ties a rope, weighted with a rock, around his neck, to make the drowning sure. Lost in dreams of the girl, with the dearly purchased flower still under his nose, and in a mood to save all humanity, the tramp comes on the scene. He dashes forward to stop the suicide. "Tomorrow the birds will sing," he reminds the drunkard. "Be brave, face life!" But the millionaire, not to be dissuaded, places the rope around both heads — and slips out himself. In their struggles, one to die, the other to save his life, it is the tramp who goes overboard when the stone is tossed into the river. There follows a hilarious sequence as they alternately pull each other in and rescue each other, until they stand safe, but dripping and panting, at the edge. The cold water cures the millionaire's depression, but brings on the manic phase. He invites the Tramp to his home to warm up. Informed by the butler that his wife has sent for her baggage, he replies, "Good." He then pours Charlie a drink, but misses Charlie's glass and sends it down the oversize trousers. More comic drink pouring, with Char