THE KID, Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length production, is one of his most sentimental and most satisfying films, a simple but very effective blend of pathos and laughs, in which the Tramp finds an abandoned baby.
An unmarried woman (Edna Purviance), "whose only sin was motherhood," leaves the hospital with her newborn son and puts the baby in a limousine that's parked in front of a fancy mansion, with a note asking the owners to love and care for it. Two thieves come along and steal the car, find the baby,
and dump it in a back alley. A tramp (Chaplin) discovers the baby and tries to get rid of it, but he keeps getting it back. He decides to keep it after r...
Released:
1921
Rated:
NR
Length:
53 mins