THE KID
DIRECTOR: CHARLIE CHAPLIN
US, 1921
One heaves rocks through windows. The other happens by in the nick of time to offer his services as an expert window repairman. It’s a con system that works every time. So does everything else about this beloved Chaplin classic, whose blend of laughs and pathos changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be. For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the adorable ragamuffin (six-year-old Jackie Coogan) who, rescued as a foundling and raised in the School of Hard Knocks by the Tramp, is his inseparable sidekick. (54 mins.)
FOLLOWED BY
THE IDLE CLASS
DIRECTOR: CHARLIE CHAPLIN
US, 1921
Charlie is the spitting image of a rich woman’s drunken husband. At a masked ball, her inability to distinguish one from the other leads to much confusion. (32 mins.)