Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release Year: 1921
Country: USA
Runtime: 68
Languages: English
Director: Charles Chaplin
Sound: Mono, Silent
Taglines:

This is the great film he has been working on for a whole year

This is the great picture upon which the famous comedian has worked a whole year.

6 reels of Joy.

Writing by: Charles Chaplin - writer

Produced by: Charles Chaplin - producer

Cast: Carl Miller - The Man
Edna Purviance - Mother
Jackie Coogan - The Kid (as Jack Coogan)
Charles Chaplin - A Tramp (as Charlie Chaplin)
Albert Austin - Man in shelter (uncredited)
Beulah Bains - Bride (uncredited)
Nellie Bly Baker - Slum nurse (uncredited)
Henry Bergman - Night shelter keeper (uncredited)
F. Blinn - His assistant (uncredited)
Kitty Bradbury - Brides mother (uncredited)
Frank Campeau - Welfare officer (uncredited)

Music: Jon Bon Jovi Alan Silvestri
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Plot Outline: The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.
Plot: 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. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. 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. Charlie is later awakened by a kind policeman who reunites him with the Kid at Ednas mansion.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits are based on the Bayeux Tapestry, a full account of the 1066 Norman conquest of Britain.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: 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. Still, when he is seen inside, he has got his cap back upon his head.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The production company tried to cheat Charles Chaplin by paying him for this six-reel film what they would ordinarily pay him for two-reel film, about half a million dollars. Chaplin took the unassembled film out of state until they agreed to the one-and-a-half million he deserved, plus half the surplus profits on rentals, plus reversion of the film to him after five years on the rental market.
• For the scene in which the Kid is taken from the Tramp and nearly carted away to a workhouse, Charles Chaplin stated in his autobiography that the young Jackie Coogan was made to cry by his father, who told him that if he would not cry in the scene, he would be sent to an actual workhouse.
• The shooting ratio (the amount of material shot:what appears in the final film) is 53:1, far higher than any other Charles Chaplin film.

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