Little Tramp is finding it difficult to match his own sensibilities to the modern mechanized world. Failing as a worker on a factory assembly line, he gets into a series of adventures and misadventures, which leads him to meet and befriend an orphan girl. 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.
9 December 1903, Vallejo, California, USA
30 January 1871, Ontario, Canada
1 August 1894, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
23 February 1868, San Francisco, California, USA
26 February 1894, Osage, Iowa, USA
1 April 1905, New York City, New York, USA
August 25, 1884 in Helena, Montana, USA
July 16, 1886 in San Francisco, California, USA
19 November 1871, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
November 30, 1874 in Rochelle, Illinois, USA
2 February 1892, Henderson, Kentucky, USA
16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
18 March 1887, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 November 1897, London, England, UK
18 April 1889, Naples, Italy
11 January 1886, Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
16 September 1875, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
23 July 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 November 1880, Paxton Hall, England, UK
13 December 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
23 October 1892, New York City, New York, USA
19 November 1902, Dallas, Texas, USA
April 6, 1868 in Niles, Ohio, USA
11 March 1887, San Francisco, California, USA
25 August 1878, San Francisco, California, USA
3 June 1910, Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York, USA
January 18, 2013
The film as a whole means no more than Charlie Chaplin means. Nobody has ever been able to say what that is, but by the present showing it is something quite timeless and priceless, and more human than the best of alien words lugged in for definition.
June 26, 2007
The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.
June 26, 2007
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
April 27, 2009
It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane.
June 26, 2007
The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.
November 26, 2010
Perhaps the highlight of Chaplin's late career
November 20, 2010
the fact that it is one of Chaplin's great masterpieces is testament to both his artistic resilience in the face of industry change and the enduring power of great silent comedy.
December 26, 2010
Families will cherish Chaplin's silent slapstick.
June 17, 2011
Chaplin's hilarious comedy still is one of the most poignant critiques of modernization and mechanization of mass production.
November 18, 2010
Modern Times magically reaches forward through the decades, resonating loudly for these difficult modern times.
April 01, 2008
One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.
June 24, 2006
Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
