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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.
the opening title reads: 'a comedy with a smile and perhaps a tear'. as she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding. edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. thieves, who dump the baby by a garbage can, steal the limo. charlie the tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. five years later, edna has become an opera star, but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. a doctor called by edna, discovers the note with the truth about the kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from charlie. before he arrives at the orphan asylum, charlie steals him back and takes him to a flophouse. the proprietor reads of a reward for the kid and takes him to edna. later, a kind policeman awakens charlie and reunites him with the kid at edna's mansion.
Charlie Chaplin