The Gold Rush

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1925 / 95min / 4K DCP

The second feature that Chaplin released under the aegis of United Artists, the studio he’d co-founded with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith in 1919, The Gold Rush was made with the writer-director-star’s total creative control, and as a result his film, concerning The Tramp’s holing up with prospector Mack Swain to pan for gold in turn-of-the-last-century Alaska, is stuffed to bursting with memorable bits of business: the lopsided cabin perched on the edge of eternity, the dancing bread rolls, Chaplin’s transformation into a giant chicken and yes, of course, that delectable shoe. “A comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness. It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of The Best of... 1925