THE KID

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• Release Year: 1921
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: 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.”
• Cast: Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Charles Chaplin, Albert Austin, Beulah Bains, Nellie Bly Baker, Henry Bergman, F. Blinn, Kitty Bradbury, Frank Campeau, Bliss Chevalier, Frances Cochran, Elsie Codd, Jack Coogan Sr., Estelle Cook, Lillian Crane, Dan Dillon, Philip D'Oench, Robert Dunbar, Florette Faulkner, Rupert Franklin, Sadie Gordon, Lita Grey, Frank Hale, Martha Hall, Jules Hanft, Baby Hathaway, Louise Hathaway, Flora Howard, Ed Hunt, Lulu Jenks, Irene Jennings, Kathleen Kay, Grace Keller, Sarah Kernan, Walter Lynch, V. Madison, Clyde McAtee, John McKinnon, Ethel O'Neil, Lew Parker, Charles I. Pierce, Laura Pollard, Evans Quirk, Esther Ralston, Granville Redmond, Charles Reisner, Henry Roser, J.B. Russell, George V. Sheldon, Edgar Sherrod, Elsie Sindora, Minnie Stearns, Mother Vinot, May White, S.D. Wilcox, Baby Wilson, Edith Wilson, Tom Wilson, Amanda Yanez, Baby Yanez, Elsie Young
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 0:53
• Company: The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie