The beloved Chaplin classic whose blend of laughs and pathos changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be and “announced Chaplin as one of the cinema's foremost poets” (SLANT Magazine). For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the adorable ragamuffin (6-year-old Coogan) who, rescued as a foundling and raised in the School of Hard Knocks by the Tramp, is his inseparable sidekick.