Modern Times

Watch: Modern Times

Unrated

2/5/19361h 27m

Premiere Release (US)

~ 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..

Director:

Charlie Chaplin

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,500,000.00

Revenue:

$1,800,000.00

Key words:

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

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

~ as ~

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Paulette Goddard

~ as ~

A Gamin

Henry Bergman

~ as ~

Cafe Proprietor

Tiny Sandford

~ as ~

Big Bill

Chester Conklin

~ as ~

Mechanic

Hank Mann

~ as ~

Burglar

Stanley Blystone

~ as ~

Gamin's Father

Al Ernest Garcia

~ as ~

President of the Electro Steel Corp.

Richard Alexander

~ as ~

Prison Cellmate

Cecil Reynolds

~ as ~

Minister

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Reviews (2)

AG
Andres Gomez
Written 11 year(s) ago
8
Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.
CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
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...