Modern Times
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Modern Times (1936)

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11/02/1936 (GB)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 27m

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!

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..

  • Charlie ChaplinDirector, Screenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $1,500,000

  • Revenue

    $1,800,000

Keywords

  • factory
  • ambulance
  • invention
  • mental breakdown
  • tramp
  • great depression
  • industrial revolution
  • slapstick comedy
  • automation
  • jail
  • hospital
  • black and white
  • machine
  • pardon
  • guilty
  • silent film
  • unemployment
  • screwdriver
  • police arrest
  • wrongful conviction
  • communism
  • assembly line
  • prison break attempt
  • burglars
  • smuggling
  • orphans

Top Billed Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

A Gamin

Henry Bergman

Henry Bergman

Cafe Proprietor

Tiny Sandford

Tiny Sandford

Big Bill

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Mechanic

Hank Mann

Hank Mann

Burglar

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

Gamin's Father

Al Ernest Garcia

Al Ernest Garcia

President of the Electro Steel Corp.

Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander

Prison Cellmate

Cecil Reynolds

Minister

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