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Modern Times (1936)
8.5
Ratings: 8.5/10 from 52,916 users
Metascore:
96/100
Reviews: 146 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 <[email protected]>
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You'll never laugh as long and as loud again as long as you live! The laughs come so fast and so furious you'll wish it would end before you collapse! See more »Parents Guide:
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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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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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The Mechanical Salesman: Good morning, my friends. This record comes to you through the Sales Talk Transcription Company, Incorporated: your speaker, the Mechanical Salesman. May I take the pleasure of introducing Mr. J. Widdecombe Billows, the inventor of the Billows Feeding Machine...
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(1917) (uncredited)
Music by Léo Daniderff
Publishers: Bertal-Mouda & Ronn
Performed by Charles Chaplin See more »
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Trivia
Supposedly was to be Charles Chaplin's first full sound film, but instead, sound is used in a unique way: we hear spoken voices only when they come from mechanical devices, a symbol of the film's theme of technology and dehumanization. Specifically, voices are heard from: - The videophones used by the factory president - The phonographic Mechanical Salesman - The radio in the prison warden's office See more »Goofs
Continuity: When the factory worker is trapped in the machine, the position of some of the wheels changes between shots. See more »Quotes
[Listening to a phonograph record]The Mechanical Salesman: Good morning, my friends. This record comes to you through the Sales Talk Transcription Company, Incorporated: your speaker, the Mechanical Salesman. May I take the pleasure of introducing Mr. J. Widdecombe Billows, the inventor of the Billows Feeding Machine...
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Soundtracks
"Je cherche après Titine"(1917) (uncredited)
Music by Léo Daniderff
Publishers: Bertal-Mouda & Ronn
Performed by Charles Chaplin See more »
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