
City Lights(1931)
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.


“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!”
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..

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
Modern Times is a comedy, drama, romance film released in 1936 exploring themes of factory, ambulance, invention, mental breakdown, tramp, great depression. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, it stars Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman. 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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