The 1925 silent film The Gold Rush stars Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp, a prospector caught up in the Klondike gold rush.
Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, and edited the film, combining broad physical comedy with a harsh story of hunger, cold, loneliness, and survival. The Tramp travels to the Yukon hoping to find gold, while facing storms, dangerous prospectors, and romantic disappointment involving Georgia, played by Georgia Hale.
Several scenes became landmarks of silent comedy. In one, the starving Tramp cooks and eats his shoe; in another, his friend Big Jim imagines that he has transformed into a giant chicken. The famous dance of the bread rolls is another memorable sequence. Chaplin drew inspiration from photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush and accounts of the Donner Party’s desperate survival.
The original film was silent, but Chaplin released a revised version in 1942 with narration, music, and sound effects. The 1925 version remains the canonical silent-film work and is the version associated with the question.