Plot SynopsisThe opening title cards:Since the beginning of time man has been polygamous - even the saints of Biblical history - but the Son of Man gave a new thought, and the world is growing nearer the true ideal.Now you""re the Shocker.Go out there and find that weapon he lost").Later in a lab-workshop class, Peter tinkered with he discarded Chitauri weapon, conjecturing that it had an internal power core that could be removed.studios from bankruptcy, helping it grow into a major studio.Set during the Depression and about the Depression, this film is considered the backstage musical par excellence, the grand-daddy of them all.Plot SynopsisUnder the superimposed credits, a clock face approaches 6 o""clock.The foreword explains the film""s theme: """Modern Times."" A story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness." The film opens with an overhead shot of a flock of sheep jostling in their sheep pen, and rushing through a chute.