Not, I think, the funniest Chaplin movie but it has its moments. The prospector eating his shoe, the cabin perched on a cliff and the cabin fever sketches are the best. The tone of the time and place is more cruel and the tramp never really seems to be on top of things in his usual by hook or by crook manner. He seems to lack some of his mischievousness, the extreme physical and unexpected humour that makes one sit up in some of his other movies. In its place is a storyline that is more sentimental and tender, nearer to the melodrama of Victorian vaudeville. Personal preference. The 1925 silent version works for me better than the official 1942 version with Chaplin narrating. (This Criterion edition has both.) I first saw 'The Gold Rush' as the second part of a double bill with 'The Circus'. It was the narrated version and the laughter that has filled the theatre during 'The Circus' died as the jokes were "explained" in 'The Gold Rush'. Perhaps it is a matter of mindset. It may turn out funnier if you approach it as a warm sentimental story ... set amidst unrelenting snow.Read full review
The Gold Rush is classic Chaplin. I won't say it is my favorite movie he's ever made but it is one of the better ones the plot is fairly simple little tramp goes to Alaska to find his fortune there he meets two men one bad and one good and has various different adventures that are hilarious and funny.
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