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*The Gold Rush* is a 1925 American silent film produced by United Artists. Charlie Chaplin served as the director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor, while also starring in the cast alongside Mack Swain, Tom Murray, and Georgia Hale. Roland Totheroh was the director of photography, and Charles D. Hall acted as production designer. The black-and-white film was shot in Colorado and distributed by United Artists and Netflix.
The narrative follows a gold prospector in Alaska who struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl. Classified as a comedy, romantic comedy, adventure, and drama, the film has a runtime of 95 or 96 minutes and utilizes a 4:3 aspect ratio. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.
The film received an IMDb rating of 8.1 based on 128,237 votes and a TMDb vote average of 7.968 from 1,830 votes. Its production budget was $923,000, with a reported revenue of $4,000,000.
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Film · TMDB
8.0A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin as The Lone Prospector
- Mack Swain as Big Jim McKay
- Tom Murray as Black Larsen
- Henry Bergman as Hank Curtis
- Malcolm Waite as Jack Cameron
- Georgia Hale as Georgia
Themes
- dance
- worker
- gold
- river
- thanksgiving
- gold rush
- love
- alaska
- cabin
- black and white
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman and Malcolm Waite.
Chaplin drew inspiration from photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush as well as from the story of the Donner Party who, when snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, were driven to cannibalism or eating leather from their shoes. Chaplin, who believed tragedies and comedies were not far from each other, decided to combine these stories of deprivation and horror in comedy. He decided that his famous rogue figure should become a gold-digger who joins a brave optimist determined to face all the pitfalls associated with the search for gold, such as sickness, hunger, cold, loneliness or the possibility that he may at any time be attacked by a grizzly. The film features scenes like Chaplin cooking and eating his shoe, or how his starving friend Big Jim sees him as a chicken.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Gold Rush” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.