What makes Charlie Chaplin's 'The Kid' so Great?

Currently there is a major touring retrospective across several North American cities of restored 35mm prints of Charlie Chaplin’s major feature films, which include (among others) comic classics The Kid, The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator. read more

Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance writes, of the legacy of Chaplin's The Kid: "The Kid remains an important contribution to the art of film, not only because of Chaplin’s innovative use of dramatic sequences within a feature-length comedy, but also because of the revelations The Kid provides about its creator. read more

At Charlie Chaplin Studios, Chaplin created many shorts and also feature-length movie dramas, including his masterworks: A Dog’s Life (1918), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and Limelight (1952). read more