The Kid
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.
- Budget
- $250,000
- Revenue
- $5,450,000
- Production
- Charles Chaplin Productions
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Cast
Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp
Jackie Coogan
The Kid
Carl Miller
The Man
Edna Purviance
The Woman
Albert Austin
Car Thief / Man in Shelter (uncredited)
Beulah Bains
Bride (uncredited)
Nellie Bly Baker
Slum Nurse (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
Professor Guido / Night Shelter Keeper (uncredited)
B.F. Blinn
Assistant (uncredited)
Kitty Bradbury
Bride's Mother (uncredited)
Frank Campeau
Welfare Officer (uncredited)
Jack Coogan Sr.
Pickpocket / Guest / Devil (uncredited)
Lita Grey
Flirtatious Angel (uncredited)
Lew Parker
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
Esther Ralston
Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
Granville Redmond
The Man's Friend (uncredited)
Charles Reisner
Bully (uncredited)
Tom Wilson
Policeman (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Writers
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producers
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cinematography
- Roland Totheroh
- Composer
- Charlie Chaplin
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User Reviews from TMDB
Andres Gomez
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.
barrymost
July 28, 2021
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 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…
CinemaSerf
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 n…