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A tramp (Charles Chaplin) brings up an abandoned baby (Jackie Coogan), and later loses him to his mother (Edna Purviance); but there is a happy ending. The film is a sentimental silent comedy set in the slums. The comedy is sparingly laid on, but the overall effect is much less painful than the synopsis would suggest.
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy. A woman decides to abandon her baby in the backseat of an automobile with a handwritten note attached, beseeching the finder to care for and love the child. The baby is discovered by the initially-reluctant Tramp, who eventually softens and comes to love him ...
Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman. Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid. “Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe. Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid.
The Kid had its world premiere on January 21, 1921, at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in a benefit for the Children’s Fund of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. It is the one Chaplin film for which all the reviews were ecstatic. Chaplin later recalled, “The reviews of my pictures have always been mixed.
May 3, 2022 · The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy -drama film written, produced, directed by and starring charlie chaplin and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling...
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Bride (uncredited) Nellie Bly Baker. ... Slum Nurse (uncredited) Henry Bergman. ... Professor Guido / Night Shelter Keeper (uncredited) Edward Biby.
1921. 1 hr 8 min. 8.2 (134,163) The Kid is a 1921 American comedy-drama film by Charles Chaplin that tells the story of an abandoned baby who is taken in by a kind-hearted tramp (played by Chaplin), who raises him as his son. Edna Purviance co-stars as a young woman who helps in the child's care and becomes romantically involved with the Tramp.
