The Gold Rush

Chaplin, United Artists, 1925. The Tramp, a lone prospector in the Klondike, shares a cabin with Big Jim (Mack Swain) and waits on Georgia (Georgia Hale) at a dance hall. Chaplin shot exteriors near Truckee in snow, then rebuilt the storm on the Hollywood lot. The boiled boot, the dinner-roll dance, and the cabin on the cliff edge were all worked out as mechanical problems: a shoe of licorice, rolls on forks, a set on rockers. He later called it the film he wanted to be remembered by. A sound reissue in 1942 replaced the titles with his narration.