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The Kid (1921)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Comedy | Drama | Family

Most recently watched by sensoria, lordofthemovies

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.

Rated NR | Length 68 minutes

Actors

Charlie Chaplin | Jackie Coogan | Carl Miller | Edna Purviance | Albert Austin | Beulah Bains | Nellie Bly Baker | Henry Bergman | Edward Biby | F. Blinn | Kitty Bradbury | Frank Campeau | Bliss Chevalier | Frances Cochran | Elsie Codd | Jack Coogan Sr. | Estelle Cook | Lillian Crane | Philip D'Oench | Dan Dillon | Robert Dunbar | Florette Faulkner | Gloria Faythe | Rupert Franklin | Sadie Gordon | Lita Grey | Frank Hale | Martha Hall | Jules Hanft | Louise Hathaway | Silas Hathaway | Flora Howard | Ed Hunt | Lulu Jenks | Irene Jennings | Kathleen Kay | Grace Keller | Sarah Kernan | Raymond Lee | Walter Lynch | V. Madison | Clyde McAtee | Michael J. McCarthy | 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 | Arthur Thalasso | Edith Valk | Mother Vinot | May White | S.D. Wilcox | Edith Wilson | Tom Wilson | Amanda Yanez | Baby Yanez | Elsie Young

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
12/07/2013TVDVDLibrary7.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

This one applies to both my IMDb top 250 project and Flickchart highest rated project. Can understand why it’s rated so highly but I prefer later Chaplin when he perfected his craft. Still a good movie of course also a little sloppy and lacking a defining social commentary.

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