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Modern Times

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Modern Times
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G,1hr 27min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1936
Director:
Charles Chaplin
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman  ...more
Synopsis: This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound, vocal, and musical effects throughout. Chaplin stars as an assembly-line worker driven insane by the monotony of his job. After a long spell in an asylum, he searches for work, only to be mistakenly arrested as a Red agitator. Released after foiling a prison break, Chaplin makes the acquaintance of orphaned gamine (Paulette Goddard) and becomes her friend and protector. He takes ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film hilariously satirizes Depression-era social ills through the Tramp's disastrous encounters with the industrial age. Chaplin turns his factory worker's nervous breakdown into comic set pieces involving an automated feeding machine, an inability to stop tightening bolts, and, most famously, his entrapment in machinery gears. In a potent satire of authoritarian idiocy, ... Full Review
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