![]() ![]() The Tramp confronts the bully and earns Georgia's respect. Georgia is unaware of the Tramp's existence until an obnoxious bully, Jack, tries to force her to dance with him. While wandering around, the Tramp ends up in the town's saloon where he sees Georgia (Georgia Hale), a beautiful dancer he instantly falls in love with her. He befriends a mining engineer who allows him to stay in his cabin while he is away on business. The Tramp ends in a town full of gold diggers. Black Larsen escapes with a load of Big Jim's gold but dies in an avalanche. Big Jim goes back to his gold stash, but out of nowhere Black Larsen appears and hits him with a shovel, causing him to lose his memory. Eventually, the weather improves, and the Tramp and Big Jim part ways. ![]() The Tramp quickly realizes that the most effective way to help Big Jim get rid of the hallucinations is a strong meal - which is why he cooks one of his shoes and serves it to him. Later on, Black Larsen stumbles upon Big Jim's gold stash, which he decides to keep.īack in the cabin, Big Jim begins hallucinating - his brains tells him that the Tramp as a giant chicken, which he attempts to kill. While wandering around, he meets and kills two policemen. They draw cards and Black Larsen gets the lowest one. Soon, the prospectors agree that one of them must go out and find food. The Tramp, Big Jim and Black Larsen decide to share the cabin until the weather gets better. Black Larsen attempts to kick him out too, but Big Jim proves stronger. Like the Tramp, he is cold, tired, and looking for a place to spend the night. Meanwhile, a new prospector, Big Jim (Mack Swain), who has found gold, appears. Fortunately for the Tramp, there is a strong blizzard that literally blows him back into the cabin. Cold and tired, he ends up at the remote cabin of a man with a price on his head, Black Larsen (Tom Murray), who immediately kicks him out. The Tramp is an ambitious prospector wandering around the snowy hills of Alaska, trying to figure out which way to go. The early days of the Klondike gold rush, 1898. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. The disc also arrives with an illustrated booklet featuring an essay by film critic Luc Sante and James Agree's review of the 1942 version. The supplemental features include European trailers for the film exclusive video interview with Timothy Brock new audio commentary with Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance new program tracing the film's history from its original release to the rerelease and reconstruction short documentary film featuring filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo and more. The disc contains the preferred by Chaplin newly restored 1942 version of the film as well as a new reconstruction of the silent 1925 original version, with a soundtrack by Timothy Brock. Svet Atanasov, May 19, 2012Ĭharlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. ![]()
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