Modern Times (1936)

02/05/1936 (US) • 1h 27m

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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..

Top Billed Cast

Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Henry Bergman

Cafe Proprietor

Hank Mann

Burglar

Stanley Blystone

Gamin's Father

Al Ernest Garcia

President of the Electro Steel Corp.

Richard Alexander

Prison Cellmate


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,500,000.00

Revenue

$1,800,000.00

Keywords

factory

ambulance

invention

mental breakdown

tramp

great depression

industrial revolution

slapstick comedy

automation

jail

hospital

black and white

machine

pardon

silent film

unemployment

screwdriver

police arrest

wrongful conviction

communism

assembly line

prison break attempt

burglars

smuggling

orphans

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