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...
Acting
Chaplin's Tramp: pure physical poetry, zero dialogue needed.
Production
The factory set—an anxiety dream made of steel and whistles.
Editing
Rhythm so tight you could set your watch to the slapstick.
Director
Charlie Chaplin
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
Mira McKinney
Minister's Wife
Murdock MacQuarrie
J. Widdecombe Billows
Wilfred Lucas
Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint
Sheriff Couler
Fred Malatesta
Cafe Head Waiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, scored, and starred—while the FBI opened a file on him for 'communist sympathies.' The film's literally got a red flag in it.
The 'nonsense song' near the end was Chaplin's first time audiences heard his voice on screen—he made it gibberish so it wouldn't date the film.
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