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Modern Times
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.
Paulette Goddard....A Gamin
Henry Bergman....Cafe Proprietor
Tiny Sandford....Big Bill (as Stanley Sandford)
Chester Conklin....Mechanic
Hank Mann....Burglar
Stanley Blystone....Gamin's Father
Al Ernest Garcia....President of the Electro Steel Corp. (as Allan Garcia)
Richard Alexander....Prison Cellmate (as Dick Alexander)
Cecil Reynolds....Minister
Mira McKinney....Minister's Wife (as Myra McKinney)
Murdock MacQuarrie....J. Widdecombe Billows (as Murdoch McQuarrie)
Wilfred Lucas....Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint....Sheriff Couler (as Ed Le Sainte)
Fred Malatesta....Cafe Head Waiter
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