Restoring The Gold Rush
June 19, 2012
Film Info
- United States
- 72 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- English
- Spine #615
Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork—which charts a prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. Shot partly on location in the Sierra Nevadas and featuring such timeless gags as the dance of the dinner rolls and the meal of boiled shoe leather, The Gold Rush is an indelible work of heartwarming hilarity. This special edition features both Chaplin’s definitive 1942 version, for which the director added new music and narration, and a new restoration of the original 1925 silent film.
Cast
| The Lone Prospector | Charles Chaplin |
| Big Jim McKay | Mack Swain |
| Black Larsen | Tom Murray |
| Hank Curtis | Henry Bergman |
| Jack Cameron | Malcolm Waite |
| Georgia | Georgia Hale |
| Georgia's friends | Betty Morrissey |
| Joan Lowell | |
| Kay Deslys | |
| Barman | Stanley "Tiny" Sandford |
Credits
| Director | Charles Chaplin |
| Written by | Charles Chaplin |
| Original music by | Charles Chaplin |
| Musical director | Max Terr |
| Director of photography | Roland Totheroh |
| Production design | Charles D. Hall |
| Narration written and spoken by | Charles Chaplin |
| Film editors | Charles Chaplin and Harold E. McGhan |
| Editorial supervisor | Edward Manson |
| Production manager | Alfred Reeves |
| Sound editors | Harold E. McGhan and James L. Fields |
| Sound recordists | Pete Decker and W. M. Dalgleish |
| Assistant directors | Henri D'Abbadie D'Arrast and A. Edward Sutherland |
| Associate director | Charles Reisner |
| Camera operators | Mark Marlatt and Jack Wilson |
| Painters | Peter Stitch and Mr. Wood |
| Script supervisor | Della Steele |
| Bear wrangler | Bud White |
| Dedicated to | Alexander Woollcott |
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration of the 1942 sound version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New 2K digital transfer of the reconstructed original 1925 silent film, restored in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with a newly recorded adaptation of director Charlie Chaplin’s score, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
- New audio commentary for the 1925 version by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
- Three new programs: Presenting “The Gold Rush,” which traces the film’s history
and features filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and Vance; A Time of Innovation: Visual Effects in “The Gold Rush,” featuring effects specialist Craig Barron and Chaplin cinematographer Roland Totheroh; and Music by Charles Chaplin, featuring conductor and composer Timothy Brock - Chaplin Today: “The Gold Rush” (2002), a short documentary featuring filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo
- Four trailers
- PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante and James Agee’s review of the 1942 rerelease
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