The Gold Rush (1925)

Name: The Gold Rush (1925)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Description: The Little Tramp joins the Klondike stampede and finds a snowbound cabin, a starving prospector who starts seeing him as a giant chicken, and a dance-hall girl who forgets she ever agreed to meet him. Chaplin spins hunger and heartbreak into set pieces — the boiled boot, the dancing bread rolls, a house teetering on a cliff.

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1925 · 1h 27m · Silent

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

public domain

US public domain — the original 1925 silent version was published 1925 and its US term has expired. Chaplin's 1942 re-edit with narration and score is a separate, later work.

The Little Tramp joins the Klondike stampede and finds a snowbound cabin, a starving prospector who starts seeing him as a giant chicken, and a dance-hall girl who forgets she ever agreed to meet him. Chaplin spins hunger and heartbreak into set pieces — the boiled boot, the dancing bread rolls, a house teetering on a cliff.

The film Chaplin said he most wanted to be remembered for. This is the silent 1925 cut — the boot, the rolls, the cabin on the edge.

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