The Gold Rush (1925) [Re-UP]

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The Gold Rush (1925-1942)
DVD5 + DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:35:23 + 01:12:10 | 3,52 Gb + 8,02 Gb
1942 - English AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/240 Kbps; German AC3 2.0 @ 240 Kbps | 1925 - Silent with Musical Score and English intertitles
Subtitles: English (+SDH), German (+SDH), Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian,
Swedish, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew, Dutch and Russian (for details see below)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family

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.

IMDB - Top 250 #131 | Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes

Among all of his films, The Gold Rush was Charles Chaplin’s personal favorite and the film by which he always wanted to be remembered. It was the fourth feature-length film he had written and directed, but the first since The Kid (1921) four years earlier to feature his most iconic and beloved creation, the Little Tramp character. Chaplin was at the height of his artistic prowess in the mid-1920s and probably the most recognizable figure in the world, having honed his craft in dozens of short films throughout the teens, in the process attaining a level of success and stature rivaled by few, if any.


At the time he under a great deal of pressure to deliver a hit for United Artists, the distribution company he had founded in 1918 with director D.W. Griffith and actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. His previous films for UA, A Woman of Paris (1923) and The Pilgrim (1923), were both atypical Chaplin films, the former being a drama in which he didn’t appear except in an unbilled cameo and the latter being a caustic satire in which he portrayed a convict masquerading as a pastor. Thus, The Gold Rush, which was billed as a “dramatic comedy,” was a much anticipated return to form, and at the time of its initial release in 1925, it was heralded as a major artistic and commercial success, earning enough revenue worldwide to make it the most successful box office hit of the silent era. It is, in many ways, the quintessential Chaplin film, embodying all of his strengths as a performer and filmmaker. Emotionally robust and genuinely hilarious in ways that transcend time and culture, it balances the witty and the sentimental and still finds plenty of room to inject the moments of underdog social commentary that were so crucial to Chaplin’s worldview.


The story takes place in northern Alaska during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s. Chaplin was initially inspired by a stereogram he saw at Mary Pickford’s house in 1923 of an endless line of prospectors hiking up the Chilkoot Pass—an image that is simultaneously inspiring in its depiction of human determination and sad in the realization that only a handful of those prospectors will actually strike it rich and the rest will go home exhausted and empty-handed. Chaplin casts his Little Tramp character as a “lone prospector,” who we first see walking precariously along a mountain ridge, at one point followed by a bear he never sees. Dressed in his trademark too-small coat and derby and too big pants and shoes, Chaplin’s Tramp ends up in a remote cabin during a snowstorm with Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain), an enormous, but gentle prospector who has recently discovered a huge vein of gold in his claim, and Black Larsen (Tom Murray), a wanted criminal.


The film’s second half takes place in a small mining town where the Tramp meets and falls in love with Georgia (Georgia Hale), a local beauty who already has a boyfriend and rather callously toys with the Tramp’s emotions before recognizing the error of her ways. Interestingly, this portion of the film emphasizes the Tramp’s loneliness and isolation even more so than when he is walking in the snowy wilderness by himself. One of the film’s most affecting shots shows him from behind as he walks into a crowded dance hall and everyone around him partners up as the music begins playing, leaving him standing alone, a solitary figure amidst the mirth. Chaplin, of course, spins numerous comic gems out of the situation, particularly when Georgia asks him to dance as a means of escaping the advances of another man and the Tramp tries desperately to impress her with his dancing while simultaneously keep his pants from falling down (which he does by ingeniously using his cane as a make-shift suspender and not so ingeniously by tying them his pants with a rope than happens to have a dog on the end). Later, Big Jim, having lost his memory after being clunked on the head by Black Larson, convinces the Tramp to return with him to the isolated cabin so he can find his gold claim. Another storm hits, blowing the cabin to the edge of a cliff, which culminates in one of Chaplin’s most visually audacious setpieces as the entire cabin tilts and leans, threatening to plunge off the edge.


Compared to Chaplin’s previous films, The Gold Rush was an epic narrative and massive filmmaking endeavor; not only was it the longest of Chaplin’s features at that point, but it involved a more complex storyline (that was, nevertheless, largely improvised during production) and a number of innovative special effects. Ever the perfectionist, Chaplin insisted on take after taken, eventually shooting some 231,000 feet of film over 170 days of shooting, most of which was done in the studio, although some shots were done in the Sierra Nevada mountains.


The production was also beset with numerous scandals, including Chaplin’s affair with his original costar Lita Grey (who had also appeared in The Kid), who was only 15 at the time and became pregnant; Chaplin had to stop production for three months in order to whisk her away to Mexico and marry her under the ruse that he was going there to shoot footage for the film. It was also during production on The Gold Rush that film producer Thomas Ince mysteriously died aboard newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst’s yacht. Chaplin always maintained that he wasn’t on the yacht at the time, but numerous sources have placed him there, and the rumor goes that Hearst shot Ince, but was actually trying to murder Chaplin because Chaplin was involved with his mistress, the actress Marion Davies.


Scandals aside, The Gold Rush was a monumental production for its era, and boasts some of the most memorable setpieces in all of Chaplin’s cinema. The early sequences in the cabin are among the most famous, particularly the scene in which the tramp boils and eats his own shoe, twirling the laces on his fork like spaghetti and chewing on the nails like chicken bones. It’s a quintessentially Chaplinesque moment: funny, graceful, and poignant, particularly because it rests so squarely on desperation and hunger, feelings that Chaplin, the son of itinerate vaudeville performers, had never quite forgotten, even after he became one of the wealthiest men in the world. We remember this scene so well because it so perfectly embodies the essence—and brilliance—of Chaplin’s art: the manner in which he transforms suffering into comedy without trivializing the pain. Much of The Gold Rush hinges on hunger, desperation, and poverty, which Chaplin transforms by finding the universal strands of humor in them (such as when Big Jim begins to hallucinate that the tramp is a giant chicken—a visual gag that would become de rigeur in Looney Tunes shorts) and by finding ways for his characters to surmount the odds.


Another comic sequence that demonstrates the transformative power of Chaplin’s comedy is the much beloved dinner roll bit, where he sticks two forks into a pair of dinner rolls and does an impromptu dance on the table with them (it was so popular to German audiences that the bit was actually rewound and shown twice at the film’s Berlin premiere). The gag was nothing new at the time—Fatty Arbuckle had actually done a version of it on-screen in The Rough House in 1917 when he and Chaplin were both working at Mack Sennett’s Keystone studio—but Chaplin turned it into something both funnier and more poignant by employing it in a fantasy sequence in which the Tramp imagines himself entertaining Georgia and her three friends in his cabin for New Year’s Eve. On one level we marvel at Chaplin’s physical dexterity with his make-shift puppetry, while on another level it represents the Tramp’s own dreams and desires of being loved and appreciated, which makes the subsequent scene in which he sits alone in his cabin while Georgia and her friends live it up at the dance hall without him all the more affecting. Say what you will about Chaplin’s sentimental streak, but he earns every bit of pathos he renders.
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Special Features:
DISC ONE:
- The Film (1942 Version)
Subtitles: English (+SDH), German (+SDH), Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew and Russian

DISC TWO:
- The Film (1925 Silent Version)
- Introduction by David Robinson (6 mins)
- "Chaplin Today - The Gold Rush" documentary by Serge Le Péron with the participation of Idrissa Ouedraogo (26 mins)
- Photo Gallery
- Poster Gallery
- Theatrical Trailers (6 mins)
- Scenes from the films in the Chaplin Collection (23 mins)
Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch

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