The Gold Rush

Not a bad illustration of scale, writer, director and star Charles Chaplin with cameraman Roland Totheroh shooting partly on location near Truckee, Nevada, also introducing Big Jim (Mack Swain), opening The Gold Rush, 1925.

Their nefarious third partner gone looking for food, writer, director, star and Englishman Charles Chaplin prepares a famous Thanksgiving dinner for himself and Big Jim (Mack Swain), in the Alaskan wilderness, in The Gold Rush, 1925.

New Years' eve in Alaska, the Prospector (writer, director and star Charles Chaplin) prepares to receive Georgia (Hale) and friend (Betty Morrissey) at his cabin, not knowing they've forgotten, in possibly the best-remembered scene, a fantasy, from The Gold Rush., 1925.

The prospector (writer, director and star Charles Chaplin), reunited with pal Big Jim (Mack Swain), arising in their old cabin after a blizzard, and a surprise, opening a famous set piece from The Gold Rush, 1925.