Charming Chaplin: The Kid
January 27 - 31, 2024
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"A comedy with a smile—and perhaps a tear". As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him.
Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”
- Director: Charlie Chaplin
- Principal Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
- Country: USA
- Year: 1922
- Running Time: 53 min.
- Producer: Charlie Chaplin
- Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin
- Cinematographers: R. H. Totheroh
- Editors: Charlie Chaplin
- Music: Charlie Chaplin
- US Distributor: First National
- International Sales: Kino International