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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..

1936

Comedy·Drama·Romance

1h 27min

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Top Billed Cast

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
Sammy Stein
Turbine Operator
Juana Sutton
Woman with Buttoned Bosom
Ted Oliver
Billows' Assistant
Norman Ainsley
Billows' Silent Assistant (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
Shopkeeper (uncredited)

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