Modern Times

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..

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

as The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Paulette Goddard

as A Gamin

Henry Bergman

as Cafe Proprietor

Tiny Sandford

as Big Bill

Chester Conklin

as Mechanic

Hank Mann

as Burglar

Stanley Blystone

as Gamin's Father

Al Ernest Garcia

as President of the Electro Steel Corp.

Richard Alexander

as Prison Cellmate

Cecil Reynolds

as Minister

Reviews

Andres Gomez

Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being....

CinemaSerf

I wonder how many people watch this nowadays and sympathise immediately with Chaplin's unskilled worker trying to keep up with the relentless march of technology? It starts with him being an unwilling guinea pig for a gadget that appears as useful for cleaning teeth as it is for feeding him - a cunn...

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