The Gold Rush | Film 1925

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 comics 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. In the film, scenes like Chaplin cooking and dreaming of his shoe, or how his starving friend Big Jim sees him as a chicken could be seen.

Directed by
Charlie Chaplin

Written by
Charlie Chaplin

Produced by
Charlie Chaplin

Starring
Charlie Chaplin
Georgia Hale
Mack Swain
Tom Murray
Malcolm Waite

Cinematography
Roland Totheroh

Edited by
Charlie Chaplin

Music by
(1942 re-release)
Charlie Chaplin
Carli Elinor
Max Terr
James L. Fields

Distributed by
United Artists

Release date
June 26, 1925

Running time
95 minutes (original)
72 minutes (24 fps, 1942 re-release)

Country
United States

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