A Child occurs as 1921 Charlie Chaplin film. It featured Jackie Coogan as his adopted boy & chum. It was a immense profits, & was the 2nd-greatest grossing film within 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

A Child is just about the Tramp (Chaplinside) that finds an abandoned child in an alley & will require care of him. When a young child gets older, it is hone together & it form little schemes to cozenage humans.

A Child is notable when existence a foremost feature length comedy film to profits combine comedy & drama, when one of a opening titles says: "A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..." A best known & enduring sequence in the film is the Tramp's desperate rooftop pursuit of a welfare offices world health organization st& taken the toddler, and their emotional reunion.

Chaplin & Coogin two give remarkable performances in The Child. the film processed Coogan, so the music hall performing artist, into a major baby star. Numerous Chaplin biographers keep around attributed a genuinely close & affecting relationship portrayed in a film to stand resulted from either the dying of Chaplin's eldest child boy good prior to production began. A portrayal of impoverishment & a cruelty of caseworker come as well directly redolent of Chaplin's possess London childhood. Lita Grey, who portrays the tempting angel in the film, was Chaplin's 2nd married woman from either 1924-1927.

Chaplaround reissued a film in 1972, & he composed a freshly musical score to accompany the film. Coincidentally, he & Coogan met for the previous period that equivalent month, in the period of Chaplin's brief go to to United states for an Honorary Academy Award.

Cast and Credits
Charlie Chaplin ... Tramp Edna Purviance ... Mother Jackie Coogan ... A Kid Tom Wilson ... Cop Henry Bergman ... Empresario Lita Grey ... Angel of Temptation

Written & Directed by Charles Chaplin Photographed by Roland Totheroh