--- title: 'The Kid (1921)' type: 'film' director: 'Charlie Chaplin' released: '1921-01-16' runtime_minutes: 68 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-kid-1921' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012349/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Kid (1921) 1921 · 68 min · Drama, Comedy · United States ## Synopsis The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first feature-length film as a director. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921. Now considered one of the greatest films of the silent era, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011. ## Credits - **Director:** [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - **Screenplay:** [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - **Producer:** [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - **Editor:** [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - **Director of Photography:** [Roland Totheroh](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-totheroh) ## Cast - [Frank Campeau](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-campeau) - [Henry Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-bergman) - [Lita Grey](https://cinepixo.com/people/lita-grey) - [Charles Reisner](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-reisner) - [Robert Gaillard](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-gaillard) - [Granville Redmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/granville-redmond) - [Tom Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-wilson) - [Raymond Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-lee-3) - [Jackie Coogan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jackie-coogan) - [Carl Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-miller) - [Charlie Chaplin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-chaplin) - [Esther Ralston](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-ralston) - [Edith Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/edith-wilson) - [Albert Austin](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-austin) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-kid-1921 Film facts: Wikidata (Q374172); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.