The Kid: Criterion Collection

Summary

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 26th June 2023 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Cast

Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Producer

Charlie Chaplin

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

53 minutes

Release date

26/06/2023

Hash Tag

#TheKid #CriterionCollection

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Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature.

The Kid doesn't merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director - it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets.

Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, "a picture with a smile-and perhaps, a tear.

The Kid is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 26th June 2023 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven
A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent-film specialist Ben Model
Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin
Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman
Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid
"Charlie" on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to Europe
Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid
Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock
Trailers
An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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