The Gold Rush (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Charlie Chaplin
The Lone Prospector / Producer / Director / Writer / Music / Editor
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)
Claude Anderson
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Harry Arras
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Albert Austin
Prospector (uncredited)
F.J. Beauregard
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Marta Belfort
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
William Bell
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Francis Bernhardt
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
E. Blumenthal
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
William Bradford
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
George Brock
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Pete Brogan
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
John Brown
A Bear (uncredited)
William Butler
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
James Dime
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Charles Force
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
J. C. Fowler
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Ray Grey
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
William Hackett
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Jack Herrick
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
George Holt
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Clyde McAtee
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Steve Murphy
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Frank Rice
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Joe Smith
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
John Wallace
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Prospector (uncredited)
Al Ernest Garcia
Prospector (uncredited)
John Rand
Prospector (uncredited)
Tom Wood
Prospector (uncredited)
Kay Deslys
Georgia's Friend (uncredited)
Joan Lowell
Georgia's Friend (uncredited)
Betty Morrissey
Georgia's Friend (uncredited)
Inez Gomez
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Helen Hayward
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Betty Pierce
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Jane Sherman
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Mary Williams
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Sid Grauman
Extra in Chilkoot Pass Climb (uncredited)
Lita Grey
Extra in Chilkoot Pass Climb (uncredited)
Margarita Martín
Squaw (uncredited)
Barbara Pierce
Manicurist (uncredited)
Tiny Sandford
Barman (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Tacoma First Officer (uncredited)
Armand Triller
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Carl Jensen
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Donnabelle Ouster
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Edna Rowe
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
H. Wolfinger
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Tom Hawley
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Roland Totheroh
Director of Photography
Della Steele
Script Supervisor
Mark Marlatt
Camera Operator
Alfred Reeves
Production Manager
Charles D. Hall
Production Design
Toraichi Kono
Driver
Mr. Wood
Painter
Edward Manson
Supervising Editor
Georges Glass
Publicist
James L. Fields
Sound Director
Max Terr
Additional Music / Music Director
Pete Decker
Sound Recordist
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Assistant Director
Jack Wilson
Camera Operator
Gerard Carbonara
Additional Music
William P. Perry
Music
Charles Reisner
Assistant Director
Jim Tully
Unit Publicist
Carli Elinor
Music
Peter Stitch
Standby Painter
Harry Crocker
Unit Publicist
A. Edward Sutherland
Assistant Director
Sid Swaney
Stand In
Mac Dalgleish
Sound Recordist
Harold E. McGhan
Sound Editor
Bud White
Animal Wrangler
Lillian McMurray
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 13, 1925
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 12m
Budget$923,000
Box Office$4,000,000
Filming LocationsColorado, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman and Malcolm Waite.
Chaplin drew inspiration from photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush as well as from the story of the Donner Party who, when snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, were driven to cannibalism or eating leather from their shoes. Chaplin, who believed tragedies and comedies were not far from each other, decided to combine these stories of deprivation and horror in comedy. He decided that his famous rogue figure should become a gold-digger who joins a brave optimist determined to face all the pitfalls associated with the search for gold, such as sickness, hunger, cold, loneliness or the possibility that he may at any time be attacked by a grizzly. In the film, scenes like Chaplin cooking and dreaming of his shoe, or how his starving friend Big Jim sees him as a chicken could be seen.
The Gold Rush was critically acclaimed upon its release, and continues to be one of Chaplin's most celebrated works; Chaplin himself cited it several times as the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. In 1942, Chaplin re-released a version with sound effects, music, and narration, which received Academy Award nominations for Best Music Score and Best Sound Recording. In 1958, the film was voted number 2 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo, by a margin of only five votes behind Battleship Potemkin. In 1992, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In 1953, the original 1925 version of the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.