The gold rush

Author

Charlie Chaplin

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

DVD ed.

Languages

Silent (1925 version) or English dialogue (1942 version); English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, Georgia Hale.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (1942 version: 72 min. ; 1925 version: 88 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A prospector's search for fortune in the Klondike leads to a discovery of romance.

Notes

Includes the 1925 silent and 1942 sound versions.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1925; re-edited and released with sound in 1942.

Special features: digital restoration of the 1942 sound version ; digital transfer of the reconstructed original 1925 silent film, restored in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with a newly recorded adaptation of director Charlie Chaplin's score, presented in 5.1 surround ; audio commentary for the 1925 version by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance ; Presenting "The gold rush" ; A time of innoviation : visual effects in "The gold rush" ; Music by Charles Chaplin ; Chaplin today : "The Gold Rush" (2002), a short documentary featuring filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo ; four trailers.

Contents

• Disc 1. Gold rush (1942) ; Gold rush (1925)
• Disc 2. [Special features].