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!
Director: Charlie Chaplin · Writer: Charlie Chaplin
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...
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Cast
Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp (A Factory Worker) 
Paulette Goddard
A Gamin 
Henry Bergman
Cafe Proprietor 
Tiny Sandford
Big Bill 
Chester Conklin
Mechanic 
Hank Mann
Burglar 
Stanley Blystone
Gamin's Father 
Al Ernest Garcia
President of the Electro Steel Corp. 
Richard Alexander
Prison Cellmate 
Cecil Reynolds
Minister 
Mira McKinney
Minister's Wife 
Murdock MacQuarrie
J. Widdecombe Billows User Reviews (2)
Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.
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,…
