Celebrate Father’s Day with Chaplin! New 35 mm Print! THE KID June 20, 2010

Celebrate Father’s Day with Chaplin! New 35 mm Print! THE KID, 1921, Janus Films, 60 min. In perhaps his greatest film masterpiece, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, following his paternal instincts, takes a hapless, orphaned baby - "the Kid" - under his wing. Five years pass, and the tyke is now a precocious little boy (Jackie Coogan), helping his foster dad, the Tramp, in his "window glass replacement" scam. But a confluence of events, including the Kid’s sudden illness, conspire to separate the two.
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Plus New 35 mm Print! “A Dog's Life," (1918, Janus Films, 40 min). A literal expression of Chaplin's identification with the underdog.