Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Alicia I love this movie so much

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

adonis98-743-186503 A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm. Once again Charlie Chaplin delivers the goods both on an acting scale and humor scale although it's once again not as good as some of his better movies that he starred and directed but the story was quite nice and the same goes for the acting as well and the well written characters that it had and if you loved Chaplin movies you won't be disappointed trust me. (7/10)

MJB784 This is my choice for the best silent comedy! It is surprising that Chaplin would re-edit this in the 40s with voice over narration and removal or the intertitles and terrific ending. I keep alternating on my favorite Chaplin since Modern Times and City Lights are classics, too, but this seems like a win-win since it's stylistically groundbreaking, hilarious and with heart. The other two have that as well, but the jokes here are more relevant to the story and it ends with everything going Chaplin's way with friendship, romance and, of course, gold.

roystephen-81252 This movie will always have a special place in my heart. This was the first 'long' feature film made by Charlie Chaplin that I saw and the first time I got to see his familiar gags (like the Tramp eating his shoe or 'the dance of the rolls') in context. It surpassed all my expectations and left me speechless.For today's audiences a black-and-white silent film may seem hopelessly outdated, but The Gold Rush is truly a timeless masterpiece that has remained just as fresh, funny and moving as it once was. It's incredibly imaginative, wonderfully structured, and despite the countless laugh-out-loud burlesque moments, it's surprisingly poetic and tear-inducing. It is very reminiscent of Woody Allen's best bittersweet comedies (of course, Allen being an admirer of Chaplin's work, it's actually the other way round), so if you like Woody's perspective (and maybe enjoyed films like Zelig or Manhattan – shot in black-and-white - from Allen's vast catalogue), The Gold Rush is highly recommended to see where he is coming from.If it's just that you have never been brave enough to attempt a silent feature, well, The Gold Rush is the perfect starting point. May it be your first step into a larger world.

thinbeach The Gold Rush is a film that shows Charlie at both his comedic and heart string pulling best, proving that hunkering down in an isolated cabin with a murderer while a snow storm rages outside is in fact a great situation for comedy. Back in town he falls for a woman named Georgia and pulls all the romantic strings - dancing with her whilst using the lead of a dog as a belt to hold up his trousers, entertaining her at the dining table using forks and bread as dancing feet (in his dreams), and after receiving a love letter, venturing back out into the wilderness to claim a mountain of gold for the two of them. However little did he know that the letter was intended for another man, and the dance was only an escape from one. The poor little tramp who can hardly catch a break and only had one shoe to wear after his other was eaten in a severe state of hunger, was being played the whole time.The story relies on quite a few coincidences and loose plot threads, and as you can imagine, leans very strongly on the edges of unbelievability. This is all easily forgivable for the first two acts, as the quality of gags is so entertaining that looking for continuity seems beside the point. Unfortunately however the third act, which sees the cabin Charlie and his mate are sleeping in blown precariously close to the cliffs edge, and the forgotten landmark of gold, really does push too far against those edges, and metaphorically shall I say, falls over the cliff. I guess it was done for the sake of metaphor - a visual of his life literally being on the brink of disaster - but the quality of gags here are not nearly as good as those that came beforehand, and Charlie was always better at gags than metaphor anyway. The chance (did I mention the story relies on coincidences?) encounter between Georgia and Charlie on the boat is even more awkward. With he now a millionaire, the two appear set to live happily ever after, but is it really happy if she is so undeserving?It is well worth watching however, as the first two acts contain some great material.