Modern Times
- YEAR:
- 1936
- RUN TIME:
- 87 min.
- FORMAT:
- B&W, Silent with musical accompaniment
- RATING:
- Not Rated
“Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority... The comic Metropolis of the movie's first half is one of his greatest comic conceits.”
-J. Hoberman
The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee-feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck, finding misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman, a singing waiter whose hilarious song is gibberish, a jailbird and more. In the end, as Tramp and waif walk arm and arm into an insecure future, we know they’ve found neither bliss nor a paycheck but, more importantly, each other.
-synopsis courtesy MK2 & Warner Bros.