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The Kid

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NR,1hr 0min

Genre:

Comedy

Released:

January 21, 1921

Director:

Charles Chaplin

Distributor:

First National Pictures Inc.

Starring:

Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance ...more

Synopsis: The Kid was Charles Chaplin's first self-produced and directed feature film; 1914's 6-reel Tillie's Punctured Romance was a Mack Sennett production in which Chaplin merely co-starred.

The story "with a smile and perhaps a tear," begins with unwed mother Edna Purviance leaving the Charity Hospital, babe in arms. Her burden is illustrated with a title card showing Christ bearing the cross. The father of the child is a poor artist who cares little for of his former lover, carelessly knocking her photo

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	Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review Charles Chaplin's first feature-length film pairs his Tramp character with an orphan boy, forging a life together in a slum reminiscent of Chaplin's childhood London home. Finding humor in the extreme harshness of the Tramp's impoverished existence with his plucky adopted foundling, Chaplin turns the pair's survival into a series of comic set pieces depicting such events as their scheme to sell windows ... Full Review

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	Charles Chaplin The Tramp Jackie Coogan The Kid Edna Purviance Mother Carl Miller Artist

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