Charles Chaplin may not be everybody's favorite comic of silent cinema: as for myself, sometimes I prefer Buster Keaton while there are times I feel more inclined to Harold Lloyd. But we cannot deny that neither made such a great film as this tale of love, greed, misfortune, and luck. Not even Chaplin topped himself! The film includes classic scenes and sequences, as the roll dance, the complete sequence in the cabin with Mack Swain (including Chaplin cooking his shoe or dressed as a chicken), the waltz scene... Chaplin was so fond of this work that he declared that this was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. A true masterpiece.
Review of The Gold Rush
