Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. Special features: deleted scenes; the 1924 short Entr'acte; 1998 interview with Bronja Clair; film historian David Robinson on the plagiarism lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern times. "The Classic Collection, a joint venture between Janus Films and the Home Vision Cinema"--Container. Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Olivier, André Michaud, Germaine Aussey, Jacques Shelly, Léon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa.
Summary:
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
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