Cinema Cellar

Kid, The Blu-Ray

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1921
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Genre: Silent
Cast: Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jack Coogan, Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Tom Wilson, May White, Charles Reisner, Raymond Lee, Jules Hanft, Frank Campeau, Frank Blinn, Edward Biby, Jack Coogan Sr., Lita Grey Chaplin, Silas Hathaway, Minnie Stearns, Granvil (...)
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Language: English
Release Date: 2016-02-16
Description
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 Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”