Charming Chaplin: Modern Times
January 26 - 31, 2024
Charming Chaplin: Four Iconic Charlie Chaplin Masterpieces
This comedic masterpiece finds the iconic Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and where various mishaps keep getting him sent to prison. In between his various jail stints, he meets and befriends an orphan girl (Paulette Goddard). Both together and apart, they try to contend with the difficulties of modern life, with the Tramp working as a waiter and eventually a performer.
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times—though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)—is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
- Director: Charlie Chaplin
- Principal Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
- Country: USA
- Year: 1936
- Running Time: 87 min.
- Producer: Charlie Chaplin
- Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
- Cinematographers: Ira H Morga, Roland Totheroh
- Editors: Charlie Chaplin
- Music: Charlie Chaplin
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