The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin as his Little Tramp character, following a lone prospector's hardships and misadventures during the Klondike Gold Rush. The film is best remembered for two of Chaplin's most celebrated comic set pieces, a starving prospector boiling and eating a leather boot, and the Tramp performing the Dance of the Rolls with two forks and bread rolls. Chaplin himself reportedly named The Gold Rush as the film he most wanted to be remembered by, and it remains one of the most commercially successful and critically admired silent comedies ever made.
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The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
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