The Kid (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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The Kid (Silent)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 53 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2016
- Originally Released: 1921
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance & Carl Miller | |
Directed by | Charlie Chaplin | |
Screenwriting by | Charlie Chaplin | |
Cinematography by | Rollie Totheroh | |
Produced by | Charlie Chaplin |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character was a laugh riot from the start...
Premiere
It was Chaplin's first full-length film, and the action is perhaps too episodic; he hadn't yet mastered the structural demands of the long form. But several of the episodes... are sublime.
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Chicago Reader
More than 80 years after THE KID was released, both the film and the child star whose career it launched, Jackie Coogan, still prove irresistible.
Los Angeles Times
The chemistry between Chaplin and Jackie Coogan is what alchemists sought in vain for centuries...
Sight and Sound
Beyond its ability to wring the heart, The Kid of all Chaplin's pictures perhaps most manifests his extraordinary knowledge of life, which his sensitive perceptions and comic imagination use as the raw material for laughter.
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The Spectator
To my mind The Kid is by long odds the best motion picture comedy ever made. It has more than humor; it has tenderness and literary charm. Incidentally it is the first child picture I ever saw that did not give me an acute pain to the bowels.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
The movie opens with the words "a picture with a smile -- and perhaps, a tear," a mission statement that would serve Chaplin well over the ensuing decades.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
Charlie Chaplin's first feature is a sad comedy about a woman who abandons her child with the intention of commiting suicide. The little Tramp finds the baby and takes him under his wing. When the woman, Edna, turns out to be an opera star five years later, she spends her extra time doing charity work for youngsters who live in the slums, hoping that she will find her son. Eventually, the truth comes out and the authorities take the baby away from Chaplin. He steals the child back, but is soon discovered and separated once again from him. A reunion at the mother's mansion resolves things happily, yet the earlier somber tone prevails, making this sweet and heartwarming story resonate for the viewer.
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- Sales Rank: 64,214
- UPC: 715515168014
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