dreamfulmehedi One of the best funny movies I've seen so far. Charlie just nails it.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 16 August 1925 by Charles Chaplin Productions. Released through United Artists. New York opening at the Mark Strand: 16 August 1925. Sound version, eliminating most of the silent titles and substituting a narrative written and spoken by Charles Chaplin, copyright 6 May 1942 by Charles Chaplin. New York opening at the Globe: 18 April 1942. U.S. release: 17 April 1942. Australian release: 3 December 1942. 6,709 feet. 74 minutes. This version, slightly cut to 6,461 feet was re-issued in Australia in 1956. The same version at 6,480 feet, opened in England at the London Pavilion around September 1956 and was subsequently shown widely throughout the U.K. SYNOPSIS: Charlie, a lone prospector, is stormbound in a Klondyke hut with Big Jim, a successful miner, and Black Larson, a desperado.NOTES: The silent version ran 8,498 feet which, projected at sound speed, ran 93 minutes. Chaplin claims that he saved no less than 25 minutes, solely by eliminating the original inter-titles. As the film then ran only 68 minutes, Chaplin added 400 feet of previously discarded footage which he had been wise enough to keep in storage all these years. Chaplin's first film as actor-director for United Artists (of which he was one of the four founding partners). The most commercially successful of all Chaplin's silent films, coming in third at the U.S./Canadian box-office for 1925, with a domestic rentals gross of $2½ million. Location scenes filmed in the High Sierras. COMMENT: Not nearly as funny as its admirers would have us believe, The Gold Rush is too macabre, too grisly in its humor for my taste. True, Chaplin does wonders with seemingly depressing material. Indeed the whole movie depends for its effect on finding something to laugh at in the most horrifying situations. But I still find it hard to chuckle at the sight of a man so desperately hungry he is reduced to cooking his boot. Only a genius like Chaplin would think of turning this predicament into a classic comedy turn.

ajg-11283 The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin is a movie written and directed in the typical Chaplin Manner. Like most of Charlie Chaplains movies "The Gold Rush" takes you on a journey with chaplains most notable character "The Tramp". In this movie, Chaplin played the character of the lone prospector, a young naive miner hoping to strike it rich during the gold rush. the development of this character, although not very intensive was made easy due to the tramp being a very notable silent film character during this era. This is very important, even more so when cinematography was at a low due to video recording still being a new piece of technology. You could really tell during "The Gold Rush" that Charlie Chaplin was one of the great directors of the silent film era. He knew how to manipulate the actors to portray the story he was trying to tell in his story. As someone who never experienced silent film during its peak demand it is exciting and amusing to see how actors and directors can make the audience understand what is happening in a scene when there is no dialogue. One notable scene that really stuck out to me during this film was the scene when the Little Fellow and Big Jim where in the cabin during the storm. Eventually they ran out of food, and shortly after Big Jim Started to become Delirious. In a time in his life that Big Jim would eat anything (Leather shoes included) he started to see the Little Fellow as a giant Chicken. As you can probably assume if you have seen any other Chaplin movies this made for a very amusing chase scene that had me laughing along. It wasn't until after the movie finished that I realized just how much work had to go into just that scene alone. They didn't have the luxury of adding in an animation once the filming was all done. Directors had to get creative with how they were going to make scenes like this happen. It really makes you respect all the work put into something that we commonly think of as an old art form that has been replaced by the current movie era.Chaplin's Ability to connect with his audience is visible in all of his movies. He understood what his audience was looking, and made sure he delivered what they were hoping for. In many instances this desire was for the little fellow. However when the the movie industry started trending towards more talking films he realized what the demand was for and and started integrating narration into the films he had already created. seventeen years after the original version of this movie was released Chaplin re released The Gold Rush with narration done by, you guessed it, Himself. In my non-expert opinion this narration was a bit much for this movie. It seemed to distract the viewer from paying attention to what really mattered, the acting. It also didn't seem to add much detail to the silent film. It's not hard to understand what Chaplin is trying to portray during his movies so there isn't the need for a narrators explanation. I understand during the early 1940's Talking films where the new trend, However if you're planning on watching the film today and you have the opportunity to watch the completely silent version of the film watch that first.

sol- Improperly prepared for Klondike's harsh weather conditions, a lone gold prospector has to share a cabin with another prospector, whose hunger often drives him insane, in this Charles Chaplin silent comedy. Proclaimed by Chaplin as the film by which he most wanted to be remembered, 'The Gold Rush' has gone onto much acclaim, but those expecting the charm of 'City Lights' and imaginative sets and situations of 'Modern Times' may be disappointed. To be fair, 'The Gold Rush' starts off quite well with lots of humorous situations at the outskirts cabin, including imagined chickens, persons blown in and out of doorways and a hilarious sequence in which Chaplin keeps trying to dodge a gun barrel during a fight, only to find the gun pointed in his face wherever he goes. Around a third of the way in though, Chaplin leaves the cabin and what follows is far less innovative as he becomes the subject of tricks and falls in love upon returning to town. There are some funny town sequences for sure (dancing with a dog leash) and there is a great bit involving a tilting cabin near the end, but the final two thirds of the film never recapture the magic of the first third. With so many jokes and ideas that have since been imitated (bread roll forks), this is an undeniably iconic comedy, but those keen on seeing Chaplin at his finest may wish to look elsewhere.