A delight from beginning to end, boasting several of its maker's most memorable gags and Chaplinesque interludes.
The Gold Rush (1925)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:29
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This Chaplin classic finds Charlie in the Klondike searching for gold. Maintains a careful balance of masterful slapstick, romantic tenderness, and wry social satire. Also contains the celebrated... This Chaplin classic finds Charlie in the Klondike searching for gold. Maintains a careful balance of masterful slapstick, romantic tenderness, and wry social satire. Also contains the celebrated "dancing dinner rolls" gag. Re-release in 1942 featured sound narration. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Sound Recording, Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Georgina Hale, Mack Swain
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Georgina Hale, Mack Swain
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
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Reviews for The Gold Rush
The blend of slapstick and pathos is seamless, although the cynicism of the final scene is still surprising. Chaplin's later films are quirkier and more personal, but this is quintessential Charlie, and unmissable.
Mercifully, it lacks the pretentious moralising of [Chaplin's] later work, and is far more professionally put together.
The Gold Rush has been delighting audiences for almost 80 years -- it's one of the flat-out funniest films made in the silent era or any other.
The Gold Rush was one of [Chaplin's] purest comedy-fantasies, with some brilliant set-pieces including Charlie changing into a chicken and the 'dance of the dinner rolls.'
...quintessential Chaplin: sweet, semi tragic, comforting, and most of all funny.
The passage of 80 years has not dimmed its humor, or Chaplin's creativity.
Chaplin said that it was the movie he most wanted to be remembered for, and damn if he didn't get his wish.
Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness.
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