THE GOLD RUSH (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1925
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Only Charlie Chaplin could add the criminal depths to which people will sink in search of gold to the cannibalistic lengths they will go in search of food and come up with a comedy like The Gold Rush. As he said in 'My Autobiography', '...we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.' ; ; In his autobiography, Chaplin reported that his first moment of inspiration for the film occurred while he was looking at a stereoscopic view of a long line of prospectors climbing up the Chilkoot Pass in Alaska's Klondike. From this single image, his imagination took flight. 'Immediately, ideas and comedy business began to develop,' he said. Subsequent reading about the Donner party's experience with cannibalism led him to one of the funniest episodes in The Gold Rush, involving The Little Fellow's own cooked boot and a hallucinatory chicken
• Cast: Nellie Noxon, Jack Herrick, Lita Grey, Freddie Lansit, H.C. Oliver, Tom Murray, R. Campbell, Harry Arras, Richard Foley, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Coleman, M. Farrell, A.J. O'Connor, Rebecca Conroy, Frank Aderias, F.J. Beuaregard, Ruth Milo, Gladys Johnston, Sam Allen, Albert Austin, James Dime, W.S. Dobson, Leona Aderias, Jack Hoefer, Heinie Conklin, Mack Swain, Geraldine Leslie, Charles Force, Cecile Cameron, Florence Murth, R. Hausner, Ray Grey, John McGrath, William Hackett, Josie Howard, Francis Bernhardt, Dolores Mendes, Jack Adams, Helen Kassler, George Lesley, Henry Bergman, Clyde McAtee, Kay Deslys, Mr. Myers, William Parmalee, Marta Belfort, William Bradford, H.C. Chisholm, Jean Huntley, Georgia Hale, Dorothy Crane, James Darby, Pete Brogan, Marie Muggley, Helen Hayward, William Butler, Mildred Hall, James Hammer, Lillian McMurray, Fred Karno Jr., Bob Leonard, S. Murphy, Elias Lazaroff, Harry De Mors, Charles Chaplin, John Millerta, Inez Gomez, Harry Jones, Tom Hutchinson, John Eagown, Malcolm Waite, E. Espinosa, Joan Lowell, E. Blumenthal, Aaron Edward, Betty Morrissey, Kay De Lay, William Bell, Tom Hawley, Sid Grauman, Margaret Martin, Princess Neela, George Holt, Leland Carr, Gypsy Hart, George Brock, Carl Jensen, P. Nagle, George Neely, Bob Kelly, Ray Morris, Donnabelle Ouster, J.C. Fowler, John King, Leon Farey, Ben Hart, Chris-Pin Martin, Francis Lowell, Lillian Adrian, Claude Anderson, Roland Totheroh, William P. Perry, Carli Elinor
• Director: Charles Chaplin
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Charles Caplin Productions
• Media Format: Movie