The Kid

The Kid

The Kid

8.1/ 10

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1921

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68 min

Runtime

Comedy

Drama

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.

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Keywords

angel

suicide attempt

fistfight

slapstick comedy

black and white

class differences

foundling

silent film

dream sequence

semi autobiographical

car theft

illegitimate child

unwed mother

abandoned baby

out of wedlock child

hilarious

Trailer

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

Orphan Asylum Driver (uncredited)

B.F. Blinn

B.F. Blinn

Assistant (uncredited)

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Reviews(3)

7.3avg rating

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Andres Gomez

@tanty

February 25, 2016

8

8/10

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.

barrymost

barrymost

July 28, 2021

6

6/10

If you enjoy this review, please check out my blog, Old Hat Cinema, at https://oldhatcinema.medium.com/ for more reviews and other cool content. 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 o…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 14, 2024

8

8/10

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 wher…

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