Perhaps the defining Chaplin film, and certainly his funniest.
The Gold Rush (1925)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:29
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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
Reviews for The Gold Rush
Mercifully, it lacks the pretentious moralising of [Chaplin's] later work, and is far more professionally put together.
It's easy to see why this has consistently entertained generations of audiences.
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.
The Gold Rush is a distinct triumph for Charlie Chaplin from both the artistic and commercial standpoints, and is a picture certain to create a veritable riot at theatre box offices.
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.
City Lights might be Chaplin's most exquisite achievement, but he never made a funnier or more beloved film than his own personal favorite, Gold Rush.
Curiously melancholy yet packed with laughs, the picture's funniest moments aren't even the famous ones.
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.'
From the famous shoe-eating dinner to the dance of the dinner rolls, Chaplin’s effortless mining of comedy and pathos is pure gold.
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.
...quintessential Chaplin: sweet, semi tragic, comforting, and most of all funny.
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