The Gold Rush (1925)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
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The filmmakers are conscious of this silent heritage, judging by how they borrow from Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush and Modern Times .
Many, many movies, going back to Charles Chaplin's great The Gold Rush , end with the hero gaining financial reward.
The Gold Rush remains one of Chaplin's unqualified masterpieces, up there with Modern Times and City Lights.
Chaplin’s Little Tramp was so entirely a creature of the silent film that he never allowed him to speak – except the gibberish song he sings in Modern Times (1936).
Among the others in the first wave of entries are "Modern Times," "The Great Dictator," and "Limelight."
A high-wire act balancing Chaplin's disdain for authority with his urge to tug at the heart strings, Modern Times is, alas, secondary Chaplin behind the incandescent City Lights, the original version of The Gold Rush, and the underestimated The Kid--just Paulette Goddard's exhausting performance as a barefoot minx causes one to eye the exits.
Several times, Chaplin introduces a new scenario or environment—the shipyard, the cabaret, or the Gamine�s shack (reminiscent of the brilliantly used lean-to from The Gold Rush)—and then surprises you with how quickly we leave it.
There’s a set-up for a terrific gag based on one in Chaplin’s The Gold Rush involving Ponce de Leon precariously balanced on a cliff.