Modern Times [VHS]

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	Artist(s):	Charlie Chaplin
	Video by:	20th Century Fox
	Sales Rank:	144740

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Recording label: 20th Century Fox
EAN: 9786302561845
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6302561841
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Universal product code (UPC): 086162300738
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Unrated

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Charlie Chaplin is in glorious form in this legendary satire of the mechanized world. As a factory worker driven bonkers by the soulless momentum of work, Chaplin executes a series of slapstick routines around machines, including a memorable encounter with an automatic feeding apparatus. The pantomime is triumphant, but Chaplin also draws a lively relationship between the Tramp and a street gamine. She's played by Paulette Goddard, then Chaplin's wife and probably his best leading lady (here and in The Great Dictator). The film's theme gave the increasingly ambitious writer-director a chance to speak out about social issues, as well as indulging in the bittersweet quality of pathos that critics were already calling "Chaplinesque." In 1936, Chaplin was still holding out against spoken dialogue in films, but he did use a synchronized soundtrack of sound effects and his own music, a score that includes one of his most famous melodies, "Smile." And late in the film, Chaplin actually does speak--albeit in a garbled gibberish song, a rebuke to modern times in talking pictures. --Robert Horton

Running time: 87 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)