Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1936
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 3.2 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Chaplin
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

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!

Laugh . . . Cry and Thrill To his Genius . . !

Youll never laugh as long and as loud again as long as you live! The laughs come so fast and so furious youll wish it would end before you collapse!

Writing by: Charles Chaplin - (writer) (as Charlie Chaplin)

Produced by: Charles Chaplin - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Charles Chaplin - A factory worker (as Charlie Chaplin)
Paulette Goddard - A gamin
Henry Bergman - Cafe proprietor
Tiny Sandford - Big Bill (as Stanley Sandford)
Chester Conklin - Mechanic
Hank Mann - Burglar
Stanley Blystone - Gamins father
Al Ernest Garcia - President of the Electro Steel Corp. (as Allan Garcia)
Richard Alexander - Cellmate (as Dick Alexander)
Cecil Reynolds - Minister
Mira McKinney - Ministers wife (as Myra McKinney)

Music: Charles Chaplin
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Plot Outline: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Plot: Chaplins 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 9 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Worst Boy - Adolph Hitler

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: During the visit of the Minister in jail, Charlie sits next to the Ministers wife and they make funny noises. The distance between them varies between shots.

Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Supposedly was to be Charles Chaplins first full sound film, but instead, sound is used in a unique way: we hear spoken voices only when they come from mechanical devices, a symbol of the films theme of technology and dehumanization. Specifically, voices are heard from: - The videophones used by the factory president - The phonographic Mechanical Salesman - The radio in the prison wardens office
• The singers in the restaurant are also heard, and some scenes include sound effects.
• The Little Tramps last words: "Smile! Cmon!" (it is easy to read Charles Chaplins lips at the very end of the film).

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