Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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cc 132 doctor examines the boy and advises that the "child must have proper care and attention" — which is beyond the Tramp's capacity. Sadly the Tramp sits beside the boy and feels his pulse. After a period of convalescence, we see the boy sitting up in bed reading the Police Gazette while his father prepares a mustard plaster. The doctor, who on the first visit had discovered that the Kid is not the Tramp's son, has reported the case. A truck marked County Orphan Asylum stops at the door. Officials enter the garret room to take the Kid away. Lifted to the door the Kid cries out and the Tramp runs to him. The Kid and the Tramp resist. As the Tramp is overpowered the Kid cries in a corner, then snatches a hammer and zestfully uses it on the heads of the men. Charlie tosses a bowl to help out. With the aid of a cop the Kid is finally forced into the van. While the boy is crying for his "Daddy" the Tramp escapes up the skylight and balances along the roof cornices with the cop in pursuit. The two meet at the top of a gable where the cop is pushed down. Seeing the orphanage van below the Tramp takes a short cut over the rooftops to a shed from which he jumps into the rear of the truck. He tosses out the orphanage official. When the truck stops the driver is startled to see the Kid and his foster father in a tearful embrace. The Tramp chases the driver, keeping him running by jumping up and down in one spot in pretended pursuit. By now the doctor has shown the mother the note and she realizes the Kid is her lost son. At night the Tramp and the Kid retire to a flophouse. The Tramp has difficulty finding a dime to pay the tough proprietor. He opens a window and admits the Kid who hides under the blanket. As the Tramp stands by the bed, a "sleep-walking," snake-like, pickpocket hand (from the neighboring bed back of him) searches all four of the Tramp's pockets. A dime is discovered in one and the