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MRQE's 50 Best Movies of All Time
MRQE.com - The Movie Review Query Engine is one of the web's largest databases of movie reviews. Accumulating over 800,000 reviews for more than 90,000 titles, MRQE lists the greatest number of critics on print and the web. Review ratings are compiled into a numerical score, called the MRQE Metric, and such is the basis for our count of the 50 Best Movies of All Time. These are the highest rated movies across all of MRQE. Are you eager to watch a quality film? Do you consider yourself a movie fan? If you answered "yes" to either or both of these questions, then do yourself a favor and add these movies to your queue!
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Eraserhead
1977 | 89 Minutes | NRDirected by:David Lynch
Starring:John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allan Joseph, Jack Nance, and Jeanne Bates
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut ...
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#49
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Children of Paradise
1945 | 182 Minutes | NRDirected by:Marcel Carné
Starring:Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, and María Casares
Genre: Drama
Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in t...
#48
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 | 160 Minutes | PGDirected by:David Lean
Starring:William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, and James Donald
Genre: Action/Adventure
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a b...
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#47
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Tokyo Story
1953 | 134 Minutes | NRDirected by:Yasujiro Ozu
Starring:Chishu Ryu, Hieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, and Haruko Sugimura
Genre: Drama
As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to ...
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#46
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Playtime
1967 | 155 Minutes | NRDirected by:Jacques Tati
Starring:Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Georges Montant, John Abbey, and Billy Kearns
Genre: Comedy Drama
Arriving nearly a decade after Mon Oncle, Playtime continues the adventures of M. Hulot. More tha...
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#45
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The Third Man
1949 | 104 Minutes | NRDirected by:Carol Reed
Starring:Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and Paul Hoerbiger
Genre: Drama
In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist,...
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#44
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Toy Story
1995 | 80 Minutes | GDirected by:John Lasseter
Starring:Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, and Wallace Shawn
Genre: Comedy
Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a ...
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#43
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My Man Godfrey
1936 | 94 Minutes | NRDirected by:Gregory La Cava
Starring:William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, and Gail Patrick
Genre: Comedy
One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole L...
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#42
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The Battle of Algiers
1966 | 117 Minutes | NRDirected by:Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring:Yacef Saadi, Jean Martin, Brahim Haggiag, Tommaso Neri, and Samia Kerbash
Genre: Drama
This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Fi...
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#41
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
1980 | 124 Minutes | PGDirected by:Irvin Kershner
Starring:Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, and Billy Dee Williams
Genre: Sci Fi
The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green...
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#40
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1982 | 115 Minutes | PGDirected by:Steven Spielberg
Starring:Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore
Genre: Fantasy
Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure ...
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#39
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 | 156 Minutes | RDirected by:Sergio Leone
Starring:Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef
Genre: Western
In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed ...
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#38
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All the President's Men
1976 | 138 Minutes | PGDirected by:Alan J. Pakula
Starring:Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, and Martin Balsam
Genre: Drama
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's be...
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#37
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High Noon
1952 | 85 Minutes | NRDirected by:Fred Zinnemann
Starring:Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, and Ian MacDonald
Genre: Western
This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from off...
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#36
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Gone with the Wind
1939 | 233 Minutes | GDirected by:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Starring:Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, and Hattie McDaniel
Genre: Drama
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a marr...
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#35
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The Big Sleep
1946 | 114 Minutes | NRDirected by:Howard Hawks
Starring:Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, and John Ridgely
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chand...
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#34
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Wings of Desire
1987 | 125 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Wim Wenders
Starring:Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois, and Peter Falk
Genre: Drama
Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They ...
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#33
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La Dolce Vita
1960 | 167 Minutes | NRDirected by:Federico Fellini
Starring:Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Yvonne Furneaux, and Nadia Gray
Genre: Drama
In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featu...
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#32
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Metropolis
1927 | 89 Minutes | NRDirected by:Fritz Lang
Starring:Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Theodor Loos
Genre: Sci Fi
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis con...
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#31
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Rashomon
1950 | 88 Minutes | NRDirected by:Akira Kurosawa
Starring:Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Drama
This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest...
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#30
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The Godfather: Part II
1974 | 200 Minutes | RDirected by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Talia Shire
Genre: Crime Drama
Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather...
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#29
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Fanny and Alexander
1982 | 91 Minutes | RDirected by:Ingmar Bergman
Starring:Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Borje Ahlstedt, Gunn Wallgren, and Christina Schollin
Genre: Drama
Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first o...
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#28
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Taxi Driver
1976 | 112 Minutes | RDirected by:Martin Scorsese
Starring:Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Leonard Harris
Genre: Drama
"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorse...
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#27
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The Maltese Falcon
1941 | 101 Minutes | NRDirected by:John Huston
Starring:Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Gladys George
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warn...
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#26
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M
1931 | 117 Minutes | NRDirected by:Fritz Lang
Starring:Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, and Gustav Grundgens
Genre: Crime Drama
Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious t...
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#25
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 | 102 Minutes | NRDirected by:Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring:Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and Eugene Pallette
Genre: Action/Adventure
In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the ...
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#24
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The Wizard of Oz
1939 | 101 Minutes | GDirected by:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
Starring:Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and Margaret Hamilton
Genre: Fantasy
The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical...
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#23
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962 | 222 Minutes | GDirected by:David Lean
Starring:Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, and Jack Hawkins
Genre: Action/Adventure
This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during Worl...
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#22
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Killer of Sheep
1977 | 83 Minutes | NRDirected by:Charles Burnett
Starring:Henry G. Sanders, Angela Burnett, Charles Bracy, Kaycee Moore, and Eugene Cherry
Genre: Drama
The first feature film from acclaimed independent African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, thi...
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#21
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963 | 93 Minutes | PGDirected by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens
Genre: Comedy
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, an...
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#20
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Jules and Jim
1962 | 110 Minutes | NRDirected by:Francois Truffaut
Starring:Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, and Vanna Urbino
Genre: Comedy Drama
Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adapta...
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#19
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The General
1927 | 79 Minutes | NRDirected by:Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Starring:Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes, and Glen Cavender
Genre: Comedy
Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The Gen...
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#18
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Paris, Texas
1984 | 145 Minutes | RDirected by:Wim Wenders
Starring:Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, and Hunter Carson
Genre: Drama
Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate n...
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#17
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Days of Heaven
1978 | 95 Minutes | PGDirected by:Terrence Malick
Starring:Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, and Robert J. Wilke
Genre: Drama
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirme...
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#16
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City Lights
1931 | 87 Minutes | GDirected by:Charlie Chaplin
Starring:Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, and Allan Garcia
Genre: Comedy Drama
Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed...
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All About Eve
1950 | 138 Minutes | NRDirected by:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring:Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm
Genre: Drama
Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage ...
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#13
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The 400 Blows
1959 | 99 Minutes | NRDirected by:Francois Truffaut
Starring:Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, and Guy Decombie
Genre: Drama
For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his ow...
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#12
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Army of Shadows
1969 | 144 Minutes | NRDirected by:Jean-Pierre Melville
Starring:Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, and Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama
In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo...
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#11
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Singin' in the Rain
1952 | 103 Minutes | GDirected by:Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring:Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Millard Mitchell
Genre: Musical
Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean...
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#10
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Paths of Glory
1957 | 86 Minutes | NRDirected by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, and Wayne Morris
Genre: Drama
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Cald...
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Seven Samurai
1954 | 200 Minutes | NRDirected by:Akira Kurosawa
Starring:Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, and Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Action/Adventure
Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order i...
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Sunset Blvd.
1950 | 110 Minutes | NRDirected by:Billy Wilder
Starring:William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, and Fred Clark
Genre: Drama
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel ...
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The Godfather
1972 | 180 Minutes | RDirected by:Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, and Robert Duvall
Genre: Crime Drama
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga T...
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Casablanca
1942 | 102 Minutes | NRDirected by:Michael Curtiz
Starring:Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt
Genre: Drama
One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigu...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 | 115 Minutes | PGDirected by:Steven Spielberg
Starring:Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Wolf Kahler, Paul Freeman, and Ronald Lacey
Genre: Action/Adventure
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere...
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Do the Right Thing
1989 | 120 Minutes | RDirected by:Spike Lee
Starring:Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Richard Edson
Genre: Drama
Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his spri...
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Rear Window
1954 | 120 Minutes | PGDirected by:Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, and Raymond Burr
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny,...
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Citizen Kane
1941 | 119 Minutes | PGDirected by:Orson Welles
Starring:Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, and George Coulouris
Genre: Drama
Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing ...
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Modern Times
1936 | 85 Minutes | GDirected by:Charles Chaplin
Starring:Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, and Tiny Sandford
Genre: Comedy
This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, altho...
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