Through several plot twists, the Tramp ends up with enough money to pay for the flower girl's eye surgery, but ends up more destitute than ever himself. He looks so pathetic that she goes out to put a flower in his lapel, and when she touches him, she realizes who he is. Words can't even begin to do it justice. If you've never seen this, go rent it now. Frankenstein Not the first, but certainly the most famous of the movies about Frankenstein's monster, played here by Boris Karloff.
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Use large cut-outs of 'The Monster' in your lobby. I'm thinking especially of his interaction with Maria, a little girl who offers him one of the flowers that she is picking. Instead, she drowns, thus inciting the mob who eventually kills him. Interestingly enough, this scene of the drowning was cut from contemporary prints of the movie, and was not restored until years later. The Films of the Golden Age Web site contains an interview with Marilyn Harris , who played Maria.