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The Kid (1921)

01/21/1921 Comedy, Drama 1h 8m
82%
User
Score
8.2/10
100%

6 reels of Joy.

Overview

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Charlie Chaplin

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

A Tramp

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

The Kid

Carl Miller

Carl Miller

The Man

Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance

The Woman

Albert Austin

Albert Austin

Car Thief / Man in Shelter (uncredited)

Beulah Bains

Beulah Bains

Bride (uncredited)

Nellie Bly Baker

Nellie Bly Baker

Slum Nurse (uncredited)

Henry Bergman

Henry Bergman

Professor Guido / Night Shelter Keeper (uncredited)

Edward Biby

Edward Biby

Orphan Asylum Driver (uncredited)

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Media

THE KID – NEW 100TH ANNIVERSARY TRAILER

THE KID – NEW 100TH ANNIVERSARY TRAILER

Jackie Coogan on THE KID

Jackie Coogan on THE KID

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Reviews

A review by Andres Gomez

Written on February 25, 2016

Cute and funny. It is difficult to say anything new from this movie or Charles Chaplin. He just delivers a complete story with a lot of different elements. Remarkable is also the performance of Jackie Coogan....

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A review by barrymost

Written on July 28, 2021

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Two Little Tramps

The most amazing thing about Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid is that it was released in January of 1921. That makes this film 100 years old! A century has gone by since it was made, released, and first viewed, and yet it’s still available to be appreciated anew today. The DVD print that I watched was in very good shape, the picture was great, and I felt that I was watching an important piece of cinema history.

However, The Kid is by no means one of my favorite Chaplin films. In fact, two out of my top three aren’t even silent films, but prime examples of Chaplin’s later work: Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and Limelight (1952...

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on July 14, 2024

An impoverished woman (Edna Purviance) feels compelled to abandon her child in the hope that he might find a better life - so she leaves him (with a short note) in the back of a car. The two men who find the little bundle don't want anything to do with him, so plonk him down behind some rubbish where de is discovered by the tramp (Charlie Chaplin). Now he's not that keen on children either, but the presence of an attentive policeman means can't just leave his new package in the pram of a woman nearby. Skip on five years and the two have become quite a formidable double act - the lad (Jackie Coogan) chucks stones at windows and his father-figure does the mending! Meantime, the mother finds success treading the boards and the boy's real father, likewise, succeeds - but that relationship is t...

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