History Film / TheGoldRush

* EatingShoes: The Tramp boils one of his boots to stave off starvation with Big Jim. He even eats the shoestrings like spaghetti. Big Jim is much less enthusiastic.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The photographer at the end who tries to stop TheBigDamnKiss, shouting "You're ruining the picture!". This might have been Chaplin expressing mixed emotions about that scene, since he deleted it from the 1942 ReCut.

The 1925 original can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2Gpiy1KA8 here]], and the 1942 sound version can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqpsYK2rBI here]].

* BearsAreBadNews:
** Averted. Bears taste better than shoes.
** Somehow played straight and averted at the beginning, when nearly as soon as the Tramp appears, already only wearing his Tramp clothes in a blizzard and wandering lost in the mountains, he starts getting followed by a bear without noticing. ...but then they just go in different directions after awhile. In the meantime, it is hysterical.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Yup, it's a HappyEnding (in the 1925 cut only).

* EatingShoes: Chaplin is the TropeNamer.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Chaplin re-released the film in 1942 with a new musical score. He also added sound effects to the film, and replaced the silent movie title cards with descriptive voice-over narration.

* GoldDigger: A mild version considering Georgina does not hide that she is looking for a rich husband in the Klondike, but she's a nice enough woman whose love happens to have a price, but Charlie is willing and able to pay it in the end.

Is often cited as Creator/CharlieChaplin's masterpiece, and reportedly Chaplin's favorite of his own films. He re-released in 1942, in a version crafted for sound that replaced all the title cards with Chaplin's own narration. The newer version also revised a plot point (Georgia's letter) and cut TheBigDamnKiss from the end of the movie.

Chaplin plays "The Lone Prospector" -- that is, {{the Tramp}} in Alaska during the Alaska Gold Rush. Charlie, blundering around the snowy mountains, winds up stuck in a cabin with considerably more competent prospector Big Jim [=McKay=] (Mack Swain). Big Jim and Charlie are reduced to eating Charlie's shoe, and Big Jim nearly eats Charlie before Charlie finally shoots a bear. After eating they part ways amicably. Big Jim stumbles across a very rich gold strike ("a mountain of gold!") as well as fugitive murderer Black Larsen (Tom Murray), who hits Jim in the head, causing him to have amnesia.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Alone in a crowd.]]

Chaplin plays "The Lone Prospector", that is, the Tramp in Alaska during the Alaska Gold Rush. Charlie, blundering around the snowy mountains, winds up stuck in a cabin with considerably more competent prospector Big Jim [=McKay=] (Mack Swain). Big Jim and Charlie are reduced to eating Charlie's shoe, and Big Jim nearly eats Charlie before Charlie finally shoots a bear. After eating they part ways amicably. Big Jim stumbles across a very rich gold strike ("a mountain of gold!") as well as fugitive murderer Black Larsen (Tom Murray), who hits Jim in the head, causing him to have amnesia.

Often cited as Creator/CharlieChaplin's masterpiece, and reportedly Chaplin's favorite of his own films. He re-released in 1942, in a version crafted for sound that replaced all the title cards with Chaplin's own narration. The newer version also revised a plot point (Georgia's letter) and cut TheBigDamnKiss from the end of the movie.

The 1925 film can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2Gpiy1KA8 here]], and the 1942 sound version can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqpsYK2rBI here]].

* NoNameGiven: As usual with Charlie's character.

* MeatOVision: Jim sees Charlie as a chicken. Possibly the TropeMaker.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Black Larsen.]]

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* BearsAreBadNews: Averted. Bears taste better than shoes.

The 1925 film can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhQddBZTUs here]], and the 1942 sound version can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqpsYK2rBI here]].

Creator/CharlieChaplin plays "The Lone Prospector", that is, the Tramp in Alaska during the Alaska Gold Rush. Charlie, blundering around the snowy mountains, winds up stuck in a cabin with considerably more competent prospector Big Jim [=McKay=] (Mack Swain). Big Jim and Charlie are reduced to eating Charlie's shoe, and Big Jim nearly eats Charlie before Charlie finally shoots a bear. After eating they part ways amicably. Big Jim stumbles across a very rich gold strike ("a mountain of gold!") as well as fugitive murderer Black Larsen (Tom Murray), who hits Jim in the head, causing him to have amnesia.

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* GoldFever