Kid

Synopsis

During the separation of his parents, a child is abandoned in a car. A poor glazier collects the baby and raises. Later, the kid helps his adoptive father by breaking panes in order to get work to him. The glazier looks after of sound the child best, but the police force and people of the district convince the men of law to take along the kid in an orphanage. Become rich, the mother of the child seeks to find her son. She there arrives and brings her assistance at the adoptive father.

Data sheet

Title: Kid or the Kid
original Title: The Kid
Realization: Charlie Chaplin
Scenario: Charlie Chaplin
Production: Charlie Chaplin
Music: Charlie Chaplin ; Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski ( Symphony n°6, Pathetic )
Photography: Roland Totheroh
Assembly: Charlie Chaplin
Artistic director: Charles D. Hall
Assistant realization: Frank Powolny
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white - 1,33:1 - Dumb - 35mm
Kind: dramatic comedy
Lasted: 50 minutes
Beginning of turning: Fine July 21st, 1919
of turning: July 30th, 1920
Coming out date: January 21st 1921 (New York, first)

Distribution

Charlie Chaplin : the glazier
Jackie Coogan: the child
Edna Purviance: the mistress of the painter, mother of the child
Carl Miller: the young painter
Tom Wilson: police officer
May White: the maidservant
Strong Robert: Joe Hazard
Jules Hanft; The doctor
Henry Bergman: The guard of the night shelter
Raymond Lee: The kid who fights with Kid
Charles Riesner: Bully his/her big brother
Lillita McMurray: The tempting angel
Edith Wison: The lady with the pram
Jack Coogan Senior: The pickpocket/the devil
Franck Campeau: The director of the orphanage

See too

Historical of Kid on the official site
Kid on Internet Movie Database
Kid on www.archive.org
Extracted on www.cinefeed.com

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