Chaplin C-Modern Times (1936)
Director:
Charlie Chaplin
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| Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan when Charlie Chaplin s Tramp confronts assembly-line woes in this classic chosen in 1998 as one of the American Film Institute s Top-100 American Films.The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee-feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck finding misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman a singing waiter whose hilarious song is gibberish a jailbird and more. In the end as Tramp and waif walk arm and arm into an insecure future we know they ve found neitherbliss nor a paycheck but more importantly each other. The times and satire remain timeless in Modern Times.Running Time: 83 min. Format: DVD MOVIE. Genre: COMEDY. Rating: NR. Age: 085393765125. UPC: 085393765125. Manufacturer No: 37651 |
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Editor's Note
Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. Here Chaplin stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all his employees via a big-brother TV monitor). When he meets and falls in love with an orphaned street waif, the two dream of a nice suburban existence...but the cops are never far behind, chasing the vagabond couple.
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Cast & Crew
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Paulette Goddard |
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Chester Conklin |
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Henry Bergman |
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Hank Mann |
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Stanley Blystone |
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Charlie Chaplin |
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Tiny Sandford |
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Allan Garcia |
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J. Russell Spencer - Art Director |
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Rollie Totheroh - Director of Photography |
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Charlie Chaplin - Producer |
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Charlie Chaplin - Composer |
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Charles D. Hall - Art Director |
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Ira Morgan - Director of Photography |
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Alfred Newman - Composer |
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Charlie Chaplin - Screenwriter |
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Charlie Chaplin - Director |
Plot Summary
Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. He stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all his employees via a big-brother TV monitor). When he meets and falls in love with an orphaned street waif, the two dream of a nice suburban existence... but the cops are never far behind, chasing the vagabond couple...
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