
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThe passage of 80 years has not dimmed its humor, or Chaplin's creativity. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe Gold Rush (1925) is the quintessential Chaplin/Little Tramp film, with a balance of slapstick comedy and pantomime, social satire |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaFrom the famous shoe-eating dinner to the dance of the dinner rolls, Chaplin's effortless mining of comedy and pathos is pure gold. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisOne of Chaplin's very funniest movies; not as indelibe as Modern Times, but close. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe 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. |
| Slant MagazineBill WeberEven with its (likely dictated) propaganda on behalf of the now-superfluous 1942 edition, this set restores a high watermark in cinematic comedy to nearly full glory. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonNo one can mix slapstick and sentimentality quite like Chaplin. |
| Examiner.comChris Sawin"The Gold Rush" is wonderfully charming. The comedic bits are both memorable and humorous, the score is exquisite, and it looks pretty darn great for being as old as it is. It's timeless in the sense that it'll be enjoyable now and 100 years from now. |
| The SpectatorIris BarryLet no one fail to appreciate those small details, of [Chaplin's] perfectly timed and quite exquisite acting, as when he has most kindly boiled one of his famous boots for a starving miner-pal, and serves it up after due testing with a fork. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewMercifully, it lacks the pretentious moralising of [Chaplin's] later work, and is far more professionally put together. |