The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
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American silent comedy-drama film The Kid , by Charlie Chaplin , in its original 1921 cut.
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- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Starring
- Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Beulah Bains, Nellie Bly Baker, Henry Bergman
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