Modern Times poster
Director Charlie Chaplin
Screenplay Charlie Chaplin

Modern Times

Tagline: He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one on earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply...the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!

Release Date: 1936-02-05

Duration: 87 minutes

Synopsis

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..

Casting

  • Charlie Chaplin
    The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
  • Heinie Conklin
    Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
  • Paulette Goddard
    A Gamin
  • John Rand
    Waiter (uncredited)
  • Gloria DeHaven
    Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
  • Walter Bacon
    Shopkeeper (uncredited)
  • James C. Morton
    Assembly Line Relief Man (uncredited)
  • Henry Bergman
    Cafe Proprietor
  • Pat Flaherty
    Jail Guard (uncredited)
  • Lloyd Ingraham
    Frustrated Cafe Patron (uncredited)