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Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.
Modern Times
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
2/5/1936
87
G
He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one on earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply...the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
- Director:
- Writer:
- Revenue:
- $1,800,000
- Budget:
- $1,500,000
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Cast
Charlie ChaplinThe Tramp (A Factory Worker)
Paulette GoddardA Gamin- Henry BergmanCafe Proprietor
- Tiny SandfordBig Bill
- Chester ConklinMechanic
- Hank MannBurglar
- Stanley BlystoneGamin's Father
- Al Ernest GarciaPresident of the Electro Steel Corp.
- Richard AlexanderPrison Cellmate
Cecil ReynoldsMinister- Mira McKinneyMinister's Wife
- Murdock MacQuarrieJ. Widdecombe Billows
- Wilfred LucasJuvenile Officer
- Edward LeSaintSheriff Couler
- Fred MalatestaCafe Head Waiter
- Sammy SteinTurbine Operator
Reviews
Geronimo1967
I wonder how many people watch this nowadays and sympathise immediately with Chaplin's unskilled worker trying to keep up with the relentless march of technology? It starts with him being an unwilling guinea pig for a gadget that appears as useful for cleaning teeth as it is for feeding him - a cunning invention which allegedly saves time, money and increases productivity... Needless to say, it's a crock of the proverbial - but that's just the start with these wacky, frequently absurd, ideas that sees our hapless hero expend considerable energy and quick-wittedness trying to stay one step ahead of these "advances" - oh, and of just about everyone else he encounters as he struggles, comedically, along! Meantime, a starving, homeless, orphane...