The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to Alaska to take part in the Alaska Gold Rush.
Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit (Mack Swain) and an escaped fugitive (Tom Murray), 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 he was with 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 (Georgia Hale) 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 to the cabin.
One sequence was altered in the 1942 re-release so that instead of the Tramp finding a note from Georgia which he mistakenly believes is for him, he actually receives the note from her.
Another major alteration is the ending, in which the now-wealthy Tramp originally gave Georgia a lingering kiss; the sound version ends before this scene. Now, they share a romantic moment by the old house.
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale
About this movie
Title: The Gold Rush (1925)
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Date of birth: 16 April 1889, Walworth, London, UK
Date of death: 25 December 1977, Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland
Writing credits: Charlie Chaplin
Music: Charlie Chaplin
Year: 1925
Country: United States
Language: Silent film
Color: Black & White
Runtime: 86 min.