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Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921] | ![Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411HZ2ZP1FL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £19.87
New (8) Used (5) from £10.45
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 33032
Format: Black & White, Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
EAN: 7321900376457
ASIN: B0000AISJM
Theatrical Release Date: 1921
Release Date: September 22, 2003
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Classic interaction between Chaplin and Coogan December 24, 2007
Jay (Mauritius)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very poor woman (Edna Purviance) can't take care of her baby and therefore she puts him in the back of a car, hoping someone will take good care of him. By a coincidence the kid ends up in the arms of a tramp, played by Charlie Chaplin of course, and he finds a note that asks if someone will take care of the orphan child. The tramp takes the job and the story continues five years later.
We see how the tramp and the kid (now played by Jackie Coogan) live and love each other, how they have little sneaky plans to earn money, how they belong to each other. In the meanwhile the woman has become rich and when she does a little charity for the poor she meets the kid not knowing it is hers.
This is a great feature film with Chaplin as the tramp. He composed the music himself as well and it fits the story perfectly. The kid is very good and he does a great job in scenes where kids can easily overreact. There is one great sequence where the tramp is in dreamland and every single person is an angel. This could have been a great movie on its own. As the film says in the first seconds, 'The Kid' is good for a laugh and perhaps a tear.
 Surprised February 7, 2006
Terry (U.S.)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
There are all sorts of reasons I shouldn't like this movie - among them the facts that I'm not a big fan of Chaplin or of 'silent films' in general - and yet, this film was, to me, profound. Chaplin's storytelling technique is still, incredibly - nearly 100 years out! - clever, fresh and engaging. Give this film a look, if only, initially (as in my case), with the intention of broadening your understanding of the history of film. You might find yourself surprised.
Clever and funny Chaplin and Coogan classic - "A comedy with a smile, and perhaps a tear" June 25, 2005
Keith Joseph (West Berkshire, England)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
`The kid' is often touted as the first comedy drama feature film ever produced. I probably like this 1921 movie because I am a fan of the classic 60's sitcom 'The Addams Family' and cheeky little 6 year old Jack Coogan (the kid) eventually became Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan). He tends to steal his scenes in both. The story follows the tramps discovery of an abandoned baby boy in a trashcan, who he raises as his own. By 6 the perky kid is helping the tramp with little money making scams to pay the rent and keep them both fed. This film has less pathos than many later Chaplin movies, although I do get a bit sad seeing children in old pictures - I suppose age did weary them. 'The kid' took Chaplin a year to film. It was Chaplin's first full length feature film and quite rightly made Jack Coogan cinemas first child superstar. The portrayal of poverty and the cruelty of welfare officers, echoing Chaplin's own London childhood, deeply moved audiences at the time, and the film became the second highest grossing movie of 1921. The remarkable warmth between Coogan and Chaplin on-screen adds considerably to the power of this film (it even has cinemas first adult/child kiss on the lips), and this has been linked by some to the death of Chaplin's infant son just before shooting began.
This version of 'The kid' is re-edited back to Chaplin's last personal edit on this film (from 1971) and several scenes featuring Edna Purviance (the mother) were deleted. For all of Edna's scenes, the alternative Shepard restoration of 'The Kid' is apparently recommended (although the deleted scenes are in the bonus material). Chaplin and Coogan last met in 1972. I only own two Chaplin films, this enchanting one and 'Modern Times' - I can recommend both. The picture quality of these DVD's are better than I remember it being when I saw them on TV in the 60's, and the actor's movements are far more fluid.
Chaplin at his best! July 10, 2004
h (United Kingdom)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Chaplin plays a tramp who finds a baby and brings him up himself. Five Years later the boy played by Jackie Coogan gets ill and sent to an orphanage. However chaplin saves him Then someone steals coogan for a reward when his mum who realises it is her little boy puts in advert in the newspaper. Chaplin and Coogan gets seperated then reunited.A lovely film and my favourite chaplin movie!
Pristine transfer of one of Chaplins finest films September 30, 2003
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Kid was Chaplins first full length feature and hence deserves a special place in any Chaplin DVD collection. This addition by Warner home video looks stunning and Chaplin's music matches the action to perfection. The actual running time of the feature provided is only 50 minutes which is about 20 minutes shorter then the Delta edition released a couple of years ago, however nothing appears to be missing here and one suspects that it is because the film runs at a faster speed in this edition.
The special features on disc two are a treasure trove of rarely seen Chaplin footage including:How to Make Movies
My Boy - A feature from 1921 starring Jackie Coogan
Scenes cut from the 1970's restoration and many other items, picture quality on all special feature items is good considering how rare and old they are. My only disappointment was that most of these films (including My Boy) play completely silent. Surely some appropriate music could have been found to accompany the films. (I ended up listening to a CD of Chaplins music while watching). This is a truely brilliant DVD of one the greats of silent cinema, and is highly recommended.
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