Modern Times (1936)
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!
1936-02-05 · Comedy, Drama, Romance · 87 min
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Overview
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...
Cast
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Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
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Paulette Goddard
A Gamin
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Henry Bergman
Cafe Proprietor
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Tiny Sandford
Big Bill
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Chester Conklin
Mechanic
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Hank Mann
Burglar
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Stanley Blystone
Gamin's Father
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Al Ernest Garcia
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
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Richard Alexander
Prison Cellmate
- Cecil Reynolds Minister
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Mira McKinney
Minister's Wife
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Murdock MacQuarrie
J. Widdecombe Billows
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Wilfred Lucas
Juvenile Officer
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Edward LeSaint
Sheriff Couler
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Fred Malatesta
Cafe Head Waiter
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Sammy Stein
Turbine Operator
- Juana Sutton Woman with Buttoned Bosom
- Ted Oliver Billows' Assistant
- Norman Ainsley Billows' Silent Assistant (uncredited)
- Walter Bacon Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Director of Photography
- Roland Totheroh
- Director of Photography
- Ira H. Morgan
- Director of Photography
- Bud Thackery
- Editor
- Charlie Chaplin
- Editor
- Willard Nico
- Original Music Composer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Screenplay
- Charlie Chaplin
Details
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Revenue
- $1,800,000
- IMDb
- tt0027977
- TMDB
- 3082
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Reviews
CinemaSerf · ★ 7 · 2022-06-19
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, orphaned woman - Paulette Goddard - is caught pinching a loaf by a rather snooty passer-by, she bumps into Chaplin on the street whist effecting her getaway, and the pair are soon in cahoots together for more engaging escapades. Chaplin is outstanding in this film - his agility, timing and visionary direction - not just of the film, but of the portents for society at large - resonates just as soundly today as when audiences started watching it 85 years ago. It swipes at modernity, but not just for the sake of it , it's not luddite in outlook - just evaluative of what/who gets left behind - and that isn't just the blue collar workers either... The scenes on the ice skates in the department store are a delight to watch; charm, humour and agility all rolled into one - and I love his style consuming the rum! Definitely one for a big screen, there is so much going on...
Andres Gomez · ★ 8 · 2013-11-05
Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.
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