| The Gold Rush | |
| | Directed by | Charlie Chaplin | | Produced by | Charlie Chaplin (Uncredited) | | Written by | Charlie Chaplin | | Starring | Charlie Chaplin | | Distributed by | United Artists | | Release date(s) | June 26, 1925 (USA) | | Running time | 82 min (original),
72 min (1942 re-issue) | | Country |
 United States | | Language | Silent film
English intertitles | | Budget | $923,000 (est.) | | All Movie Guide profile | | IMDb profile | The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, and Georgia Hale. Image File history File links TheGoldRush. ...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ...
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is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. ...
Chaplin in his costume as The Tramp The Tramp was Charlie Chaplins most memorable on-screen character. ...
Mack Swain (February 16, 1876 - August 25, 1935) was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. ...
Henry Bergman (February 23, 1868 - October 22, 1946) was an American actor of stage and film. ...
Georgia Hale was an actress of the silent movie era most famous for her role in Charlie Chaplins The Gold Rush (1925). ...
Plot
The Little Tramp travels to Alaska to take part in the Alaska Gold Rush. After bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector and an escaped fugitive, the Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town where he ultimately decides to give up prospecting. After taking a job looking after another prospector's cabin, he falls in love with a lonely saloon girl whom he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim. Official language(s) English[1] Spoken language(s) English 85. ...
A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting along the Klondike River near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century. ...
One famous scene shows the Little Tramp, starving, having to eat his boot; another famous scene shows a house teetering on the edge of a cliff, before its occupants (including Chaplin) manage to scramble out.
Another famous scene, parodied in The Simpsons (and the movie Bennie and Joon), involves the Little Tramp showing a dance to his imaginary dinner guests using two bread rolls stabbed with forks. Simpsons redirects here. ...
One sequence was altered in the 1942 re-release so that instead of the Tramp finding a note from Georgia Hale's character which he mistakenly believes is for him, he actually receives the note from her. Another major alteration is the ending, in which the now-wealthy Tramp originally gave Georgia a lingering kiss; the sound version ends before this scene. See also: 1941 in film 1942 1943 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash when returning from a War Bond tour. ...
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Background Lita Grey was originally cast as the leading lady. Chaplin married Grey in mid-1924, and she was replaced in the film by Georgia Hale. Although photographs of Grey exist in the role, documentaries such as Unknown Chaplin and Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush do not contain any film footage of her, indicating no such footage survives. Lita Grey (April 15, 1908 – December 29, 1995) was an American actress and the second wife of Charles Chaplin. ...
Georgia Hale was an actress of the silent movie era most famous for her role in Charlie Chaplins The Gold Rush (1925). ...
An acclaimed three-part 1983 British-produced television documentary based on previously unseen film from the career of Charles Chaplin. ...
Chaplin attempted to film many of the scenes on location near Truckee, California, in early 1924. He abandoned most of this footage (which included him being chased through the snow by Big Jim, instead of just around the hut as in the final cut), retaining only the film's opening scene. The final film was shot on the backlot and stages at Chaplin's Hollywood studio, where elaborate Klondike sets were constructed. Truckee is a town located in Nevada County, California. ...
Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Discussing the making of the film in the documentary series Unknown Chaplin, Hale revealed that she had idolized Chaplin since childhood and that the final scene of the original version, in which the two kiss, reflected the state of their relationship by that time (Chaplin's marriage to Lita Grey having collapsed during production of the film). Hale discusses her relationship with Chaplin in her memoir Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups.
The Gold Rush was a huge success in the US and worldwide. It is the 5th highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than $4,250,001 at the box office in 1926. It is in fact the highest grossing silent comedy film.
Chaplin proclaimed at the time of its release that this was the film for which he wanted to be remembered.
1942 re-release In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score, adding a narration which he recorded himself, and tightening the editing which reduced the film's running time by several minutes. As noted above, he also changed some plot points. Besides removing the kiss at the end, another change eliminated a subplot in which Charlie is tricked into believing Georgia is in love with him by Georgia's paramour, Jack. See also: 1941 in film 1942 1943 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash when returning from a War Bond tour. ...
The Gold Rush is the only one of Chaplin's classic silents which he is known to have converted to a sound version in this fashion. As revealed in the 2003 DVD release, the reissue also served to preserve most of the footage from the original film, as even the DVD-restored print of the 1925 original shows noticable degradation of image and missing frames, artifacts not in evidence in the 1942 version.
Critical reception
 Another original release poster In its original 1925 release, The Gold Rush was generally praised by critics. In the August 17, 1925 issue of the New York Times, Morduant Hall wrote: Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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"Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness. It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as The Kid and Shoulder Arms."[1]
Legacy The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
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Cast For the Jamaican musician named Charlie Chaplin, see Charlie Chaplin (singer). ...
Mack Swain (February 16, 1876 - August 25, 1935) was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. ...
Henry Bergman (February 23, 1868 - October 22, 1946) was an American actor of stage and film. ...
Georgia Hale was an actress of the silent movie era most famous for her role in Charlie Chaplins The Gold Rush (1925). ...
See also A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek. ...
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