Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp
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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 baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director.
The Tramp finds and cares for an abandoned baby boy in this silent film masterpiece by Charles Chaplin. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 8.2-rated movie.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Charles Chaplin
- 1921-02-06
Charles Chaplin' irascible Tramp is given able support from Jackie Coogan as The Kid in this slapstick masterpiece, balancing the guffaws with moments of disarming poignancy. Read Critics...
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- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Chaplin
- Comedy, Drama
The Kid, American silent film comedy-drama, released in 1921, that starred Charlie Chaplin in the first feature film with his popular “Little Tramp” character. It elevated Jackie Coogan to the status of the film industry’s first child superstar.
- Lee Pfeiffer
The anguish and ferocity of the Tramp’s fight to keep him are unquestionably inspired by memories of Chaplin’s own childhood heartbreak at being taken from his mother at seven years old and placed in a home for destitute children.
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 as his own.
Charlie Chaplin's first full-length feature film, starring his Tramp character and a young Jackie Coogan as an orphan he rescues. The Criterion edition includes a new 4K restoration, audio commentary, video essays, interviews, deleted scenes and more.
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