| Title | The Kid (1921) |
| Runtime | 52 min. |
| Director | Charlie Chaplin |
| Country | USA |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Comedy | Family |
| Description | Charlie Chaplin was sitting atop the movie world in 1921 when he decided (against heavy studio resistance) to make The Kid, his first dramatic comedy -- a tale of an abandoned baby adopted by an impoverished tramp and the life they build together, it offers all of the slapstick humor of his earlier two-reel classics but placed them in a broader, more sentimental story-arc. The result was a revelation to audiences and an early hint of the direction of Chaplin's work of a decade later. |