Kick In is a 1922 American silent crime drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Betty Compson and Bert Lytell.
Jerry (Agnew), the son of District Attorney Brandon (Miltern), while driving with his sister runs over and kills a child in the slum, and the police let him go.
Brandon's wife travels with a fast set, much to the disgust of their daughter Molly (Compson), recently returned from her convent school.
Jerry needs some money so opens his father's safe and Chick sees the youngster pocket cash and gems.
Japanese movie magazine Kinema Junpō (November 21, 1927) suggests that Yasujirō Ozu's first film as director, Blade of Penitence (Zange no yaiba) draws from both Kick In and Les Misérables (directed by Frank Lloyd, 1918) for its basic theme, that of an ex-convict trying to go straight but prevented by circumstances from doing so.