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 Kiddoesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of ...
It's been 100 years since the actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin produced the film The Kid, which many consider to be his greatest one. Like all films at the time, The Kid was made in black and white and was silent (made without any sound, not even the characters talking). The story...
By the time shooting had ended, Chaplin’s now irretrievably estranged wife Mildred had begun a suit for divorce. Terrified that her lawyers would try to seize the kid, Chaplin and his most faithful associates fled California. The film was edited in secret in a hotel in Salt Lake City an...
Charlie Chaplin’sThe Kidopens with a long shot of a hospital as a young woman (Edna Purviance) emerges carrying a baby. An intertitle says her sin is motherhood and an image of Christ bearing the cross is superimposed over her trek out into the harsh realities of burgeoning modernity. Fo...
It’sbeen100yearssincetheactorandfilmmakerCharlieChaplin(查理·卓别林)producedthefilmTheKid,whichmanyconsidertobehisgreatestone. Likeallfilmsatthetime,TheKidwasmadeinblackandwhiteandwassilent(madewithoutanysound,noteventhecharacterstalking).Thestoryisabouttherelationshipbetween“theTramp”,playedbyChaplin,andhis...
The Kid previous next film Year : 1921 Cast : Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Baby Hathaway, Carl Miller, Granville Remond, May White, Tom Wilson, Henry Bergman, Charles Riesner, Raymond Lee, Lillita MacMurray (Lita Grey), Edith Wilson, Nellie Bly Baker, Albert Austin, ...
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The Kid movie storyline. Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length film (six reels) as a director. A sentimental, charming semi-autobiographical tale with both humor and pathos about Chaplin’s famous Little Tramp character adopting an abandoned infant from a woman “whose sin was motherhood.” ...
The Kid is a 1921 silent dramedy film by Charlie Chaplin that featured Jackie Coogan, as his adopted son and sidekick. It was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Little Tramp (Chaplin) finds an abandoned baby ...
Charlie Chaplin's seminal feature 'The Kid' was released 100 years ago in 1921, and remains a "gently thought-stirring 53 minutes of cinema". Full film review.