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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Charles Chaplin (writer)
Release Date:
6 February 1921 (USA)
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This is the great film he has been working on for a whole year more
Plot:
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. full summary | add synopsis
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(4 articles)
Classic Ten - Best of the Big-Screen Brats
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Classic Ten - Best of the Big-Screen Brats
(From amctv - Future of Classic: Classic Ten. 24 March 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
(From amctv - Future of Classic: Classic Ten. 24 March 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
Classic Ten - Best of the Big-Screen Brats
(From amctv - Future of Classic: Classic Ten. 24 March 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
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Chaplin and Coogan team for a classic
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Carl Miller | ... | The Man |
| Edna Purviance | ... | The Woman |
| Jackie Coogan | ... | The Kid (as Jack Coogan) |
 | Charles Chaplin | ... | A Tramp (as Charlie Chaplin) |
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Runtime:
68 min | 50 min (1971 edit with new Chaplin score) | Germany:54 min
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1.33 : 1 more
Certification:
Spain:T |
Portugal:M/6 |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Denmark:7 (2003) |
Norway:A |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U |
West Germany:o.Al.
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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.
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Revealing mistakes: When the Bully (Charles Reisner) "punches" the lamppost in half during the fight with the tramp, the post begins to bend itself an instant before the punch lands on it.
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Charlie Chaplin's study of a tramp teaming up with a street kid (the cute little Jackie Coogan) has a fine line to tread between humour and pathos, and true to what you would expect of his best work, does it superbly. The tramp always manages to wring the hearts of his viewers and adding a little boy to the mix was the finishing touch. Look out too for little Lita Grey in the angel sequence, who would become Chaplin's 2nd wife four years after this film was made.