The Rag Man is a 1925 American comedy-drama film starring Jackie Coogan.

The film was directed by Edward F. Cline, and written by Willard Mack.

[1] Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) is a kid who runs away from an orphanage on the Lower East Side in New York after a fire breaks out.

He ends up taking refuge with Max (Max Davidson), a lonely junk man who is down on his luck after being cheated out of a patent fortune by some unscrupulous lawyers.

Little Kelly and Max form a partnership in the bottle and rag business, and eventually become close companions.