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Modern Times (1936)
8.5
Ratings: 8.5/10 from 50,477 users
Metascore:
96/100
Reviews: 143 user | 91 critic | 4 from Metacritic.com
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Director:Charles ChaplinWriter:Charles Chaplin |
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Cast
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| Charles Chaplin | ... |
A Factory Worker
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| Paulette Goddard | ... | ||
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Henry Bergman | ... | |
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Tiny Sandford | ... |
Big Bill
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Chester Conklin | ... | |
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Hank Mann | ... | |
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Stanley Blystone | ... | |
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Al Ernest Garcia | ... |
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
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Richard Alexander | ... |
Prison Cellmate
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Cecil Reynolds | ... | |
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Mira McKinney | ... |
Minister's Wife
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Murdock MacQuarrie | ... |
J. Widdecombe Billows
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Wilfred Lucas | ... | |
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Edward LeSaint | ... |
Sheriff Couler
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Fred Malatesta | ... |
Cafe Head Waiter
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Storyline
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. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tiempos modernos See more »Filming Locations:
Hollywood Boulevard & Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$163,245 (USA) (24 October 2004)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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A factory worker: Buck up - never say die. We'll get along.
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The film originally ended with Charles Chaplin's character suffering a nervous breakdown and being visited in hospital by the gamin, who has now become a nun. This ending was filmed, though apparently only still photographs from the scene exist today (they are included in the 2003 DVD release of the film). Chaplin dropped this ending and shot a different, more hopeful ending instead. See more »Goofs
Continuity: After going on break, he turns both wrenches in the same direction. Before that he appears to be tightening them in opposite directions. See more »Quotes
A gamin: [Last lines] What's the use of trying?A factory worker: Buck up - never say die. We'll get along.
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