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    The Kid (1921 film) - Wikipedia

    • 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. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921. Now considered one of the greatest films o… See more

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    Release dateFebruary 6, 1921 (USA)
    Content ratingTV-G
    GenreComedy · Drama · Family
    Directed byCharles Chaplin
    Plot

    With much anguish, an unwed Mother abandons her child, placing him in an expensive automobile with a handwritten note: "Please love and care for this orphan child". Two thieves steal the car and leave the baby in … See more

    Cast

    • Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp
    • Jackie Coogan as the Kid ("John")
    • Edna Purviance as the Woman (John's mother)
    • Carl Miller as the Man (John's father)… See more

    Production

    Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited and starred in The Kid, and later composed a score. Innovative in its combination of comedic and dramatic elements, the film is considered one of the greatest of the silent era. Chapli… See more

    Reception

    The Kid premiered on January 21, 1921, at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Children's Fund of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
    The Kid was acclaimed by film critics upon its release. … See more

    Legacy

    Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance writes of the legacy of Chaplin's The Kid: "The Kid remains an important contribution to the art of film, not only because of Chaplin's innovative use of dramatic sequences within a fea… See more

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  1. The Kid (1921 film) 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. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921.

    The Kid (1921 film) - Wikipedia

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    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. Charlie Chaplin (centre) and Jackie Coogan (bottom) in The Kid (1921).

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    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. A tramp (played by Chaplin) reluctantly rescues a

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    Is Chaplin's 'the Kid' a good movie?
    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.

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    Did Charlie Chaplin re-Edite 'the Kid'?
    A new version was reissued in 1972 with a new music score composed by Charles Chaplin, who also re-edited the film in order to omit a few scenes featuring the kid's mother. THE KID (First National Pictures, 1921), a comedy-drama written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), plays an important part his screen career.

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    What happened to Chaplin's 'the Kid'?
    The Kid was a breakthrough for Chaplin and for the industry in the way it combined slapstick comedy with the kind of drama that touched viewers' hearts. Content collapsed. People talk about Citizen Kane as the old tired of cliche of when film became an important art form but when films like this were being made, what a stupid thing to say.

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    Who are Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan?
    Charlie Chaplin (centre) and Jackie Coogan (bottom) in The Kid (1921). Author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema and is regarded as one of the foremost James Bond scholars. His book The Essential Bond: An Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (written with...

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    What does Chaplin do in 'the Kid'?
    The work that Chaplin does in “The Kid” provides a template for innumerable stories that confront what it means to belong to someone, taking characters who have intentionally detached themselves from a community and reconnecting them with humanity as they are faced with an unconventional version of fatherhood.

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    The Kid: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance. The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but …

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    • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
    • Director: Charles Chaplin
    • Release Date: 1921-02-06
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    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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    The Kid - Charlie Chaplin

    Chaplin and Jackie Coogan make a miraculous pair in this clever and innovative marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a story of pancakes, fistfights, and dodging social services and policemen - as the opening title card says, …

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    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.

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    The Kid (1921) - The Criterion Collection

    Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 masterpiece of silent cinema, The Kid, is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. In this film, his feature-length directorial debut, Chaplin stars as his already iconic Tramp character alongside a young Jackie Coogan, who …

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    Jan 7, 2021 · How does Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, his directorial debut, influence modern stories of adoptive fathers and children? Explore the themes of belonging, connection, and loss in films like The Mandalorian, News of the …