'The Gold Rush', Charles Chaplin famously said, is "The picture I want to be remembered by." Chaplin's irrepressible Little Tramp seeks riches in the Yukon in this all-time classic. Leave it to the Tramp to turn hard times into hilarity as he savours a thanksgiving feast of boiled shoe, slip-slides inside a house teetering on a cliff, choreographs a whimsical dance of dinner rolls, and faces all manner of perils with pluck and fortitude. 'The Gold Rush' is a cinematic wonder.
Directed by
Charles Chaplin
Written by
Charles Chaplin
Starring
Charles Chaplin (The Lone Prospector); Mack Swain (Big Jim McKay); Tom Murray (Black Larsen); Henry Bergman (Hank Curtis); Malcolm Waite (Jack Cameron); Georgia Hale (Georgia). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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