Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.
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Overview
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...
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Release date
05/02/1936
Votes
4,135
Popularity
11.0
Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
Paulette Goddard
A Gamin
Henry Bergman
Cafe Proprietor
Tiny Sandford
Big Bill
Chester Conklin
Mechanic
Hank Mann
Burglar
Stanley Blystone
Gamin's Father
Al Ernest Garcia
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Richard Alexander
Prison Cellmate
Cecil Reynolds
Minister
Mira McKinney
Minister's Wife
Murdock MacQuarrie
J. Widdecombe Billows
Wilfred Lucas
Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint
Sheriff Couler
Fred Malatesta
Cafe Head Waiter
Sammy Stein
Turbine Operator
Juana Sutton
Woman with Buttoned Bosom
Ted Oliver
Billows' Assistant
Norman Ainsley
Billows' Silent Assistant (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
Worker (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
Gloria DeHaven
Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Gloria Delson
Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
Jail Guard (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Shipbuilder (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Worker (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
Paddywagon Policeman (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
Frustrated Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Walter James
Assembly Line Foreman (uncredited)
Edward Kimball
Doctor (uncredited)
Jack Low
Worker (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger
Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell
Paddy Wagon Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Convict (uncredited)
James C. Morton
Assembly Line Relief Man (uncredited)
Dorothy Mueller
Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Burglar (uncredited)
J. C. Nugent
Department Store Section Manager (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Gypsy in Police Patrol Wagon (uncredited)
John Rand
Waiter (uncredited)
Wyn Ritchie Evans
Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Worker (uncredited)
Original Soundtrack
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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 cunning invention which allegedly saves time, money and increases productivity... Needless to say, it's a crock of the proverbial - but that's just the start with these wacky, frequently absurd, ideas that sees our hapless hero expend considerable energy and quick-wittedness trying to stay one step ahea…
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