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"The Gold Rush" is a 1925 silent film directed by Charlie Chaplin about a prospector searching for wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. The film is considered one of Chaplin's masterpieces and remains a landmark of early cinema for its blend of comedy, pathos, and innovative storytelling.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1925 American films, 1925 comedy films and 1925 English-language films.
Its subject is documented across 54 Wikipedia language editions.
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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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 811454
- Image
- Chaplin the gold rush boot.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Gold Rush
- publication date
- 1925-09-27
- title
- The Gold Rush
- working title
- Lucky Strike
- review score
- 8.1/10
- capital cost
- 923000
- box office
- 2500000
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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.
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