The Gold Rush (1925) | Directed by Charlie Chaplin - Full Movie

A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

The Gold Rush is a 1925 American 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 comics 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 received Academy Award nominations for the Best Music and Best Sound Recording upon its re-release in 1942. It is today one of Chaplin's most celebrated works, and he himself declared several times that it was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered.

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Written by: Charlie Chaplin
Produced by: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Malcolm Waite
Cinematography: Roland Totheroh
Edited by: Charlie Chaplin
Music by: (1942 re-release), Charlie Chaplin, Carli Elinor, Max Terr, James L. Fields
Distributed by: United Artists
Release date: June 26, 1925
Running time: 95 minutes (original) 72 minutes (24 fps) (1942 re-release)
Country: United States
Languages: Silent film
English: intertitles
Budget: $923,000
Box office: $2.5 million (US/Canada), $4 million (worldwide)