The Gold Rush

4K Digital Restoration

featuring

Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale,

Charlie Chaplin said that The Gold Rush was the film for which he would like to be remembered; it glitters with some of his most memorable nuggets of comedy. In the frozen wastes of the Klondike, where hordes endure hardship in the quest for gold, Chaplin’s hapless Lone Prospector takes shelter in the cabin of a hungry giant, who hallucinates Charlie into a startlingly convincing chicken. In other oft-excerpted scenes, our hero is reduced to eating his own boot, leads a pair of rolls in a graceful soft-shoe dance, and tries to escape a cabin teetering on the brink of an abyss. This is the 1925 version of the film, with Chaplin’s 1942 score adapted, arranged, and conducted by Timothy Brock for this centennial restoration. 

Juliet Clark
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer
  • Roland Totheroh
Language
  • Silent
  • with music track
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 88 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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