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	charlie chaplin's the kid \| movie (1921)
		Fearing that her lawyers might try to seize the film, Chaplin smuggled 500 reels of film to Salt Lake City where the picture was cut in a hotel room with only a small elamentary cutting machine on which to view the material.
		Even when a preview was arranged at the local movie theatre, Chaplin had still not seen the finished picture on a screen.
		His beloved father, however was killed in a road accident; and when with adolescence and manhood he found his star waning, his mother and stepfather withheld his earnings from him.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Kid at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1921, the silent era was still nearly a decade away from being perverted by sound.
		The premise for The Kid was also born from these hard times: with motivation being drawn possibly from the recent death of Chaplin's first born son, Norman Spencer Chaplin, as well as his childhood in London’s industrial slums.
		The Kid was recently released by Warner Brothers on to DVD as part of the astonishing The Chaplin Collection: Volume 2 The film has been remarkably remastered by French studio MK2.
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	DVD Verdict Review - The Kid
		The Kid blossomed out of the disintegration of Charlie Chaplin's marriage to Mildred Harris and the death of their infant son, both traumatic events that served as grist for Chaplin's creative mill and ended a troubling dry spell.
		The situation comes to a head when social workers discover the kid isn't the Tramp's son and try to forcibly remove the youngster to an orphan's asylum, leading to a rooftop chase in which the Tramp attempts to rescue the heartbroken boy from the clutches of the authorities.
		The casual infliction of hardship on innocents by bureaucrats and authority figures dispassionately carrying out duty is a regular Chaplin motif, and the scene must certainly have sprung from the filmmaker's own biography—he and his older brother Sydney having been sent to an orphanage as young boys after their mother was committed to an asylum.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thekid.php (2117 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Kid (1921)
		The Kid may not be Charlie Chaplin's best known film, but many critics cite it as his most affecting and meticulously produced work.
		The Kid also arguably inspired such later films as The Champ and even Three Men and a Baby with its simple tale of a tramp's undying love for an orphan child.
		The scrappy kid survives by the seat of his pants, finally winning the old man's affection just when he oh-so-conveniently discovers he has a rich grandmother who's been ceaselessly searching for him ever since she heard of his mother's death.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5774 (2056 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: The Kid
		The Kid was Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie.
		I was amazed at how often the music seemed to go with the movie.
		Overall I'd have to say this is one of my favorite Chaplin movies I've seen (and I've really liked everything else), Charlie's interaction with the kid is both touching and hilarious.
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	The Kid (1921)
		Released in early 1921, the film was a huge success, critically and commercially.
		When the Kid takes sick, the doctor sees the squalor in which they live and arranges for the child to be taken away by the authorities to an orphanage.
		I defy even the hardest of hearts to be unmoved by the sequence where the Kid pleads not to be taken away to the orphanage.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4424 (2179 words)

	The Kid (1921 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a huge success, and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
		The Kid is about a Tramp (Chaplin) that finds an abandoned baby in an alley and takes care of him.
		Audiences of the time were deeply affected by the film and the relationship of the Kid with the much-loved Tramp character, from whom they had not previously seen such emotional depth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Kid_(1921_movie) (510 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Disney's The Kid \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		And despite its title, "Disney's The Kid" is not a remake of the 1921 Charlie Chaplin silent classic, though it's hard to imagine how the film could have been any worse even if it had been.
		That shouldn't come as a complete surprise, considering the movie comes from filmmaker Jon Turteltaub, whose work has been all over the cinematic map, ranging from charming ("While You Were Sleeping") to wildly inconsistent ("Phenomenon") to completely wretched ("Instinct").
		And in all honesty, the absolute worst thing about the movie may be Marc Shaiman's naggingly insistent score, which telegraphs each cloying moment before the scene even starts.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,125000082,00.html (549 words)

	The Kid: The Chaplin Collection (1921)
		The Kid appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Kid also lacked the noticeable edge enhancement of Lights; some minor haloes appeared at times, but these stated minor and failed to distract.
		The movie exhibited a nicely silvery appearance from start to finish and didn’t suffer from any blandness in that domain.
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	Navarro's Silent Film Guide - Movie Reviews - The Kid
		THE KID (1921) Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan embrace during a desperate scene in this, Chaplin's first masterpiece.
		What follows is a frenzied chase sequence in which Jackie is torn from the tramp's arms and penned in an orphanage truck, wails pitifully with arms outstretched towards his "father," and Chaplin responds by clambering across the neighborhood rooftops, pursuing the truck, jumping onto its bed and disabling its startled driver.
		The scene where Jackie is taken from the tramp, and he pleads desperately to be taken back to him, is heartbreaking, because we seem not to be watching a young actor on the screen, but a real-life child whose life is being torn apart.
	www.billyates.com /navarro/reviews/thekid.shtml (727 words)

	The Kid (1921) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		While perhaps not as celebrated now as some of Chaplin's later features, "The Kid" is an excellent achievement and a thoroughly enjoyable film.
		"The Kid" is also impressive in that, while the story is a sentimental one, it strikes an ideal balance, maintaining sympathy for the characters while never overdoing it with the pathos, which Chaplin occasionally lapsed into even in some of his greatest movies.
		'The Kid' and Johnny Depp's 'Benny and Joon'
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0012349 (490 words)

	Movie Info for The Kid on MSN Movies
		The Kid was Charles Chaplin's first self-produced and directed feature film; 1914's 6-reel Tillie's Punctured Romance was a Mack Sennett production in which Chaplin merely co-starred.
		Chaplin's divorce case from his first wife Mildred Harris also played a part; fearing seizure of the negatives Chaplin and crew escaped to Salt Lake City and later to New York to complete the editing of the film.
		Chaplin's excellent and moving score for The Kid was composed in 1971 for a theatrical re-release, but used themes that Chaplin had composed in 1921.
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	Disney's The Kid: Special Edition (2000)
		Most elements of the movie are terribly syrupy; even when older Russ is touted as a serious bastard, he never seems all that rude or nasty.
		The two were recorded simultaneously, and it’s a miracle Turteltaub doesn’t kill the kid, as Breslin constantly interrupts, goes off-task, and generally acts like a little boy.
		This eight-minute and 20-second program showcases interview snippets with Turteltaub; these clips are interspersed with movie snippets from throughout his career, behind the scenes shots from these sets, and also a few sound bites from the actors with whom Turteltaub’s worked.
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	The Kid (1921) Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan - Three Movie Buffs Review
		Five years later the kid is a scrappy little guy that, thanks to the little tramps upbringing, is already an aspiring petty thief and huckster.
		The scene where the kid gets taken away and the little tramp goes out the window, climbs over several rooftops, fights off a policeman, and jumps into a moving truck to save the kid is perhaps the little tramp's finest hour.
		The dream sequence at the end where the little tramp sees all the characters from the movie prancing around the street dressed as angels is both surreal and clever.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=kid (494 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Kid: The Chaplin Collection
		It displays a humanism that seemed to well up from memories of his own hard upbringing in the London slums, as if he was determined to revisit and revise the poverty and unhappiness of his childhood by giving it the happy endings he could guarantee only in art.
		However, because the weight of his history seemed to anchor him to an increasingly distant past, he allowed it to halt his progress as a practitioner of a rapidly evolving medium, leading eventually to his most artless, backward-looking, and narcissistic excesses (Limelight, A King in New York).
		And from The Kid forward, separating Chaplin's filmmaking from his personal life — his ego, his personal and political crises, the private hagiography that drove him to fetishize his self-image in celluloid throughout his career — is like cleaving the dairy from cheese.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/k/kid.shtml (2322 words)

	The Kid (1921) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The feature length of 'The Kid' also allows Chaplin to elaborate and refine the gags, pranks and set pieces, and with the support of Jackie Coogan, it's one of his funniest comedies.
		The parent-child relationship has proved potential as sentimental entertainment, and, for me, not many have neared Chaplin in exploiting that formula in 'The Kid.' The sequence where they take the kid, for a workhouse, away from the tramp is probably the most powerful and endearing tearjerker moment in the film--or of all film.
		Yet, 'The Kid' is much more than that, which makes it such a breakthrough; the slapstick fills the plot, and there is more of a developed plot here than in Chaplin's previous work.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0012349 (695 words)

	The Kid (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		from Glendale, Arizona, U.S.A. THE KID is a decent film that does explain the mid-life crisis of a man who is about to turn 40, and meets his younger self when he was eight.
		Well, most of the children won't understand on what is going on, they'll be amused by the kid.
		While THE KID is to complicated for children, while DINOSAUR and TITAN A.E. are a little too violent.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0219854 (734 words)

	The Kid (1921) - Channel 4 Film review
		Written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin (with a musical score later composed by him in 1971), The Kid stands as one of the comedian's most successful films, a satirical look at life in the slums that was partially based on Chaplin's own childhood experiences in turn-of-the-century south London.
		Matching the Tramp persona with an angelically cute child (Coogan), The Kid taps the audience for both laughs and sentimental emotion, a strategy hinted by the opening title card: "A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear".
		While the Tramp's poverty-stricken circumstances are the source of comedy (fumbling around for cigarette butts, being covered by garbage thrown from upstairs windows), the presence of Coogan's diminutive form (dressed for added effect in oversized britches, braces and a cloth cap) emphasizes the threadbare misery of slum life.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104950 (211 words)

	The Kid - Synopsis - Moviefone
		He stumbles upon the squalling infant and, after trying to palm it off on a lady with another baby in a carriage, decides to adopt the kid himself.
		Meanwhile Purviance has relented, but when she returns to the mansion and is told that the car has been stolen, she collapses in despair.
		Chaplin re-edited the film somewhat for the re-release, cutting scenes that he felt were overly sentimental, such as Purviance's observing of a May-December wedding and her portrayal as a saint, outlined by a church's stained glass window.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-kid/1019204/synopsis (794 words)

	Movie: The Kid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Kid casts Chaplin as window repairman who runs into an orphaned child while on the street.
		Telling Chaplin to call the doctor because the boy is sick, she (either knowingly or unknowingly) sets the events in motion that will lead to...
		The semi-serious storyline and the believable acting is topped off by a plot that plants the institution against two poor individuals.
	www.angelfire.com /co/pscst/kid.html (190 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Kid DVD
		Funny and warm in equal measure, "The Kid" was born out of personal tragedy for Chaplin, as you'll find out on this handsomely produced two-disc DVD release.
		Chaplin Today: The Kid The commentary for this documentary is somewhat flat in delivery but the stories told are anything but dull.
		It's clearly aping "The Kid", and the print is in terrible condition.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/09/16/the_kid_1921_dvd_review.shtml (482 words)

	© Jackie Coogan, Child Silent Film Star - goldensilents.com
		Charles Chaplin had long been planning a movie project called "The Kid", but had kept postponing his film because he could not find the right child actor to star opposite him.
		The movie effectively combined both pathos and humor and was a great success for Charlie and Jackie.
		Jackie went on to play a child in a number of popular films in the 1920's, such as "Peck's Bad Boy" (1921), "Oliver Twist" (1922) opposite Lon Chaney, and "The Rag Man" (1925 - recently restored and re-scored for Turner Classic Movies), and he continued to tour with his father on the stage.
	www.goldensilents.com /kids/jackiecoogan.html (705 words)

	Jackie Coogan (1914 - 1984) - Find A Grave Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Charlie Chaplin who had been looking for the right child to star next to him in the movie “The Kid” was impressed and knew right away he had found the perfect child when he met him.
		The movie was very successful and Jackie would play a child in a number of movies and tour with his father on the stage.
		In the 1950's he started appearing on Television and by the 1960’s he was in two Television Series, "McKeever & the Colonel" where he played Sgt. Barnes in a military school from 1962-63 and "The Addams Family" where he played Uncle Fester opposite Gomez and Morticia from 1964-66 and became a classic.
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	Abrreviated View of Movie Page
		The baby's mother, The Woman, achieves fame as a singer and 5 years later is reconciled to the husband who has forsaken her.
		When the child is ordered removed to an orphan asylum, The Tramp rescues him and the parents find their long-lost son.
		Disconsolate over the loss of The Kid, The Tramp returns home, where he is found by a policeman who reunites him with The Woman and The Kid.
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	Movie Review
		The Mother has become an opera star and does charity work in the hope of relocating her son.
		The Tramp has raised the kid to work a scam in tandem: the boy breaks windows by tossing rocks, and the tramp shows up immediately and offers to repair them for a fee.
		A 12-year-old girl named Lillita McMurray appears briefly in the film as a flirtatious angel; three years later she would become pregnant by the writer-director, and marry him at age 16.
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	Amazon.com: The Kid / A Dog's Life: DVD: Dave Anderson,Bert Appling,Albert Austin,Henry Bergman,Mel Brown,Minnie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		As such "The Kid" becomes the comedian's first feature film as writer, director, and star (He had appeared as the male lead in 1914's "Tillie's Punctured Romance," but that was just as an actor and not really a "Chaplin" comedy).
		Chaplin had combined comedy and pathos before, but when the Kid is taken away from the Tramp by the authorities and screams for his papa, you almost forget this is a silent film.
		When both the Tramp and the kid are chased by the policeman, the kid loses his cap which falls to the ground in the yard before he could enter in his home.
	www.amazon.com /Kid-Dogs-Life-Dave-Anderson/dp/6305760047 (2503 words)

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