click to see larger viewThe Kid
- YEAR:
- 1921
- RUN TIME:
- 54 min.
- FORMAT:
- B&W, Silent with musical accompaniment
- RATING:
- Not Rated
“Mixes slapstick and sentiment in a winning combination.”
-Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
One heaves rocks through windows. The other happens by in the nick of time to offer his services as an expert window repairman. It’s a system that works. So does everything else about this beloved Chaplin classic whose blend of laughs and pathos changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the adorable ragamuffin (6-year-old Jackie Coogan) who, rescued as a foundling and raised in the School of Hard Knocks by the Tramp, is his inseparable sidekick.
-synopsis courtesy MK2 & Warner Bros.