Modern Times (1936)

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Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley J. ('Tiny') Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Louis Natheaux, Stanley Blystone, Allan Garcia, Sam Stein

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Writer: Charlie Chaplin

Running Time: 87 min.

Genre: Comedy

Rating: No Rating

Synopsis: Playing a tramp struggling to survive in a modern industrial society, Charlie Chaplin created with MODERN TIMES, one of the most elaborate cinematic critiques of the effects of mass production on 20th century life. With his usual charm and bad luck, Charlie Chaplin's most famous character The Tramp, executes some of his most famous slapstick routines around massive/glorified machines, accidentally ends up in the middle of a communist rally, and falls in love with a street waif played by Chaplin's then real-life partner Paulette Goddard.

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Modern Times (1936)

retroramblings: Saw Modern Times for the first time. Chaplin was actually pretty good wasn't he?
JimJarmuschHair: Watched MODERN TIMES today. Pretty sure they were ripping off THE ARTIST at times.
barbieangell: i also saw @jonathanammons & @AndrewJFletcher :) you can go see them both tonite at bobo at 9:30 for Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. :)
alice1471: Learnt about leger and Aragon tonight and the Parisian arcades. And watched a bit of Charlie chaplain's modern times #priceless
shiingjiuan: @Graceechia I saw this before! Haha who u like in modern times? I went to cut my hair since I had nth to do and my fringe is so short. Haha