The Gold Rush

August 28th, 2008



The Gold Rush

Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Release Year: 1925
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Chaplin
Sound: Mono, Silent
Taglines:
  • Her child would change the world.
  • A message foretold in the heavens...A prophecy that would threaten an empire...A miracle that would change the world...This Christmas...Experience the most timeless of stories
  • One family . One journey. One child...who would change the world forever.
  • One Couple. One Journey. One Child...who would change the world...forever

  • Writing by: Charles Chaplin - writer

    Produced by: Charles Chaplin - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: 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
    Jack Adams - Man in dance hall (uncredited)
    Frank Aderias - Eskimo child (uncredited)
    Leona Aderias - Eskimo child (uncredited)
    Lillian Adrian - Woman in dance hall (uncredited)
    Sam Allen - Man in dance hall (uncredited)

    Music: Charles Chaplin Carli Elinor
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    Plot Outline: The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
    Plot: A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    The hardware, weaponry and surveillance systems depicted in this film are real and in use in the united states today.

    Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: When Big Jim is so delirious that he thinks The Lone Prospector is a chicken, The Lone Prospector removes a knife from the table and hides it in the bed. In one of the next shots, the knife is back on the table. Then in the next shot it is gone again.

    Trivia: There are 21 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • The 2,500 men playing prospectors were real vagrants who were hired for one days pay.
    • There was 27 times more film shot than appeared in the final cut.
    • The only location shot used in the final cut of the film is opening shot of the miners heading up Chilkoot Pass.


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