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Director:
Charles Chaplin
Writer:
Charles Chaplin (writer)
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Release Date:
6 February 1921 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Family more
Tagline:
This is the great film he has been working on for a whole year more
Plot:
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. full summary | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
Classic Ten - Best of the Big-Screen Brats
 (From amctv - Future of Classic: Classic Ten. 24 March 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)

I'm Not a Huge Charles Chaplin Fan but...
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Cast

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Carl Miller ... The Man
Edna Purviance ... Mother
Jackie Coogan ... The Kid (as Jack Coogan)

Charles Chaplin ... A Tramp (as Charlie Chaplin)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
68 min | 50 min (1971 edit with new Chaplin score) | Germany:54 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (new music score) (1971) | Silent

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For the scene in which the Kid is taken from the Tramp and nearly carted away to a workhouse, Charles Chaplin stated in his autobiography that the young Jackie Coogan was made to cry by his father, who told him that if he would not cry in the scene, he would be sent to an actual workhouse. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the Bully (Charles Reisner) "punches" the lamppost in half during the fight with the tramp, the post begins to bend itself an instant before the punch lands on it. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Vincere (2009) more

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15 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
the greatest, 26 September 2003
Author: vladymirror from Japan

Is there a way to name the greatest filmmaker of all time? Probably not, to different people it's gonna be different person, so I can speak only for myself. Let me try to describe my favorite contestant for this award:

This man is the true embodiment of the "American Dream": Having grown up in poverty and misery and virtually without parents (without a father and with insane mother), moving to America with basically nothing but his ability to speak English (in the era of the silent movies), this man manages to establish his own film company (United Artists) and becomes one of the creators of Hollywood. He produces, directs, writes, plays the leading role and composes the music for his movies. He is the creator of the most famous movie image on the earth-the Little Tramp. As you all probably know I am talking about sir Charles Spencer Chaplin.

There are attempts, sometimes I read, to make Buster Keaton candidate for the Chaplin's throne. Well, I won't comment on that for I am not familiar with Keaton's work; I grew up with Chaplin so you could say I am being biased, however I would mention only one fact here: the only time the two meet on the screen is in a Chaplin's movie "Limelight." I think this says a lot.

Why did I choose the movie "The Kid" as a podium for my tribute to the great Charlie? I have to say I like all of his movies, mistake, I love all of his movies, but this one is the true purl in his work to me. I don't think of any other movie, not only Chaplin's, that made me cry, I mean really cry, and laugh, I mean really laugh, like "The Kid." The closest I can think of now is another Chaplin's masterpiece "City Lights" but unlike the later one in the former one that is only him, the tramp, and the kid; and everything is silent. Think about it: the movie making at its purest.

I don't know whether I could make my point with this review-probably not. There are not enough words to describe the respect and gratitude I feel towards Chaplin. To me he is simply the greatest filmmaker of all time.

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