Modern Times

(1936)

★ 8.3 IMDb · 4,179 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 1936

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Чарли Чаплин

Cast: Чарли Чаплин, Полетт Годдар, Генри Бергман, Tiny Sandford, Честер Конклин, Хэнк Манн, Stanley Blystone, Al Ernest Garcia, Richard Alexander, Cecil Reynolds

Plot

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...

Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.