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Summary:
This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound, vocal, and musical effects throughout. Chaplin stars as an assembly-line worker driven insane by the monotony of his job. After a long spell in an asylum, he searches for work, only to be mistakenly arrested as a Red agitator. Released after foiling a prison b... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Charles Chaplin - (Worker)
Paulette Goddard - (Gamine)
Henry Bergman - (Cafe Owner)
Chester Conklin - (Mechanic)
Hank Mann - (Burglar)
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Review:
Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film hilariously satirizes Depression-era social ills through the Tramp's disastrous encounters with the industrial age. Chaplin turns his factory worker's nervous breakdown into comic set pieces involving an automated feeding machine, an inability to stop tightening bolts, and, most famously, his entrapment... Continue >>

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