Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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...
- factory
- ambulance
- invention
- mental breakdown
- tramp
- great depression
- industrial revolution
- slapstick comedy
- automation
- jail
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Mira McKinney — Minister's Wife
- Murdock MacQuarrie — J. Widdecombe Billows
- Wilfred Lucas — Juvenile Officer
- Edward LeSaint — Sheriff Couler
- Fred Malatesta — Cafe Head Waiter
- Directed
- Charlie Chaplin
- Written
- Charlie Chaplin
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 4,170 ratings
- Studio
- Charles Chaplin Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
