Modern Times

Also Known As: The Masses

Company: Charles Chaplin Productions

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Budget: $1,500,000

Full Cast: Charles Chaplin / Paulette Goddard / Henry Bergman / Tiny Sandford / Chester Conklin / Hank Mann / Stanley Blystone / Al Ernest Garcia / Richard Alexander / Cecil Reynolds / Mira McKinney / Murdock MacQuarrie / Wilfred Lucas / Edward LeSaint / Fred Malatesta / Sammy Stein / Juana Sutton / Ted Oliver / Norman Ainsley / Bobby Barber / Heinie Conklin / Gloria DeHaven / Gloria Delson / Frank Hagney / Chuck Hamilton / Pat Harmon / Lloyd Ingraham / Walter James / Edward Kimball / Jack Low / Buddy Messinger / Bruce Mitchell / Frank Moran / James C. Morton / Louis Natheaux / J.C. Nugent / Russ Powell / John Rand / Harry Wilson

Cast and Character: Charles Chaplin as 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 / Mira McKinney as Minister's Wife / Murdock MacQuarrie as J. Widdecombe Billows / Wilfred Lucas as Juvenile Officer / Edward LeSaint as Sheriff Couler / Fred Malatesta as Cafe Head Waiter

Trailer: n/A

Color: Black and White

Countries: USA

Creators: n/A

Description: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Directors: Charles Chaplin

Genres: Comedy / Drama

Languages: English

Location: Santa Clarita, California, USA

MPAA: Approved

Opening Weekend: $11,507

Plot: Chaplins last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.

Poster: posters/0027977.jpg

Rating: 8.6

Release Date: 25 February 1936 (USA)

Runtime: 87 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: Laugh . . . Cry and Thrill To his Genius . . !

Title: Modern Times

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/

Votes: 75,934

Writers: Charles Chaplin

Year: 1936

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