The Gold Rush (1925)

The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent comedy film which is considered one of the best films of all time. Written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin himself. Chaplin declared several times that this was the film that he most wanted to be remembered for. Though a silent film, it received an Academy Awards nomination for Best Sound Recording.

Story is about a person named The Tramp who travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit and an escaped fugitive, after which they part ways, with the prospector and the fugitive fighting over the prospector's claim, ending with the prospector receiving a blow to the head and the fugitive falling off a cliff to his death. The Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town where he ultimately decides to give up prospecting. After taking a job looking after another prospector's cabin, he falls in love with a lonely saloon girl, whom he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim by leading him back to the first cabin.

The film starred Charlie Chaplin himself as The Tramp, Mack Swain as Big Jim McKay, Tom Murray as Black Larsen, Malcolm Waite as Jack Cameron, Georgia Hale as Georgia andHenry Bergman as Hank Curtis.