Dec 19th
The Gold Rush**
US 1925. United Artists. 95m. bw. silent

The Tramp goes prospecting in snowy Alaska.
One of Chaplin's most famous features, and while not entirely well held together - Chaplin himself revised it in sound form with music and narration in 1942 - as a director of set pieces he is near top form, with classic sequences like the lopsided log cabin, the chicken hallucination and the rolls dance. His original 1925 version also provides an interesting commentary on the flapper society of the time as well as his own troubled second marriage (his wife Lita Grey was originally to have co-starred.)

Written, Produced and Directed by: Charles Chaplin.
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray, Malcolm Waite, Henry Bergman.
Photography: Roland Totheroh.
Art Direction: Charles D. Hall.

Piano Accompaniment: Neil Brand.