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[[File:Chaplin The Kid edit.jpg|thumb|400px|Publicity photo for the movie]]
{{quote|"A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..."|'''Opening Title'''}}
[[Charlie Chaplin]] finds an abandoned baby in an alley and raises him as his son, naming him John. Together they face poverty, crime, and social workers who would have them separated. And to further complicate matters, the boy's original mother soon regrets ridding herself of the baby, and later on, discovers that Charlie is the one who's been caring for the child she left behind. The film is both a comedy and drama, and is one of the first feature length movies to combine both genres.
The title character was played by [[Jackie Coogan]], who other than this film is best known as Uncle Fester on the original ''[[The Addams Family]]'' series. After Chaplin received his lifetime
Watch or download the film at [https://archive.org/details/TheKid1921ComedyDramaFamilyFullHDMovieCharlieChaplin the Internet Archive].
Not to be confused with ''[[Disney's The Kid]]'' from 2000, starring [[Bruce Willis]].
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* [[Brats with Slingshots]]: John helps Charlie make a living as a glass salesman by breaking people's windows with rocks and running away just before Charlie arrives on the scene with some glass to sell.
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