Charlie Chaplin	...	(Director)
Charles Chaplin	...	(Writer)
Richard Alexander	...	Prison Cellmate
Henry Bergman	...	Cafe Proprietor
Stanley Blystone	...	Gamin's Father
Chester Conklin	...	Mechanic
Gloria DeHaven	...
Charles Chaplin	...	A Factory Worker
Paulette Goddard	...	A Gamin
Tiny Sandford	...	Big Bill
Hank Mann	...	Burglar
Al Ernest Garcia	...	President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Cecil Reynolds	...	Minister
Mira McKinney	...	Minister's Wife
Murdock MacQuarrie	...	J. Widdecombe Billows (as Murdoch McQuarrie)
Wilfred Lucas	...	Juvenile Officer
Edward LeSaint	...	Sheriff Couler
Fred Malatesta	...	Cafe Head Waiter

Summary: 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"