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Modern Times
Directed by
Charlie Chaplin
G
1936
87m
Drama
,
Comedy
,
and more
8.5
98%
95%
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The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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Cast of Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
Paulette Goddard
A Gamin
Henry Bergman
Cafe Proprietor
Tiny Sandford
Big Bill
Chester Conklin
Mechanic
Hank Mann
Burglar
Stanley Blystone
Gamin's Father
Al Ernest Garcia
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Richard Alexander
Prison Cellmate
Cecil Reynolds
Minister
Mira McKinney
Minister's Wife
James McQuarrie
J. Widdecombe Billows
Wilfred Lucas
Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint
Sheriff Couler
Fred Malatesta
Cafe Head Waiter
Sammy Stein
Turbine Operator
Juana Sutton
Woman with Buttoned Bosom
Ted Oliver
Billows' Assistant
Norman Ainsley
Billows' Silent Assistant (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
Worker (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
Gloria DeHaven
Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Gloria Delson
Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
Jail Guard (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Shipbuilder (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Worker (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
Paddywagon Policeman (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
Frustrated Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Walter James
Assembly Line Foreman (uncredited)
Edward Kimball
Doctor (uncredited)
Jack Low
Worker (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger
Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell
Paddy Wagon Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Convict (uncredited)
James C. Morton
Assembly Line Relief Man (uncredited)
Dorothy Mueller
Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Burglar (uncredited)
J. C. Nugent
Department Store Section Manager (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Gypsy in Police Patrol Wagon (uncredited)
John Rand
Waiter (uncredited)
Wyn Ritchie Evans
Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Worker (uncredited)
Modern Times Ratings & Reviews
Detroit Free Press
Ella H. McCormick
Several high spots stand out as notable examples of Chaplin's expert timing of slapstick burlesque, scenes that are apt to make the spectator shed tears from the strain of laughter.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
There are reminders of every Chaplin picture that was ever made all through Modern Times and there are enough brand new comic inventions to explain why Charlie takes such a long time between pictures and why they are so superlatively worth waiting for.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
What most amazes you about Modern Times, is the fact that, in this day of superfine sound films, it says everything without saying anything.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
While he has borrowed a few symbolic touches from the Russian picture makers, there is nothing of real significance in Chaplin s work except his earnest desire, and his really great ability, to entertain.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
In many ways Modern Times is old-fashioned film comedy, but it is the kind of comedy which has made millions of people laugh all over the world and which has won Mr. Chaplin the great affection and love.
Orlando Sentinel
Elinor Ragin
The monotony of this Job "gets" Charlie and he runs wild, attacking everything and everybody in view with his brandished wrenches in one of the funniest scenes ever filmed.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
The full revelation of [Paulette Goddard] is not to be detected in this production, but there is unusual promise in her work -- perhaps more than in the instance of any other Chaplin leading woman.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Robert Randol
It is sufficient to say that Chaplin is the king of pantomime artists, that this picture is one of his best and that it whets the appetite for more Chaplin films.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's comedy masterpiece about the perils of the Machine Age and the Great Depression, is one of his best-loved movies, a true classic of sublime slapstick, sentimentality and poetic political protest.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Corny or not, Chaplin keeps his sights set on the audience that initially embraced him and made him a superstar. In the swan song that is Modern Times, the Little Tramp displays the silliness, but also dignity, of the common man.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The act of even making a Tramp film that deep into the sound era is radical in a way that complements the themes of Modern Times, a film that views the march of progress through jaundiced eyes.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Families will cherish Chaplin's silent slapstick.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.
Variety
Variety Staff
The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.
New York Times
Frank S. Nugent
Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The mechanical feeding sequence in Modern Times is probably the funniest routine in cinema history.
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