Bruce Calvert
2008-09-29 15:30:22 UTC
http://www.theparktheatre.org/press/2008/freeMovies.shtml
Saturday, October 4 7:00 pm at Jaffrey Woman's Club FREE
THE GOLD RUSH (1942 Reissue) with sound effects, an original Music
Score and occasional narration spoken by Charlie
Chaplin.
With Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain
In perhaps his most enduring film, Chaplin plays the Lone Prospector
who journeys to the Klondike in 1898 to make his fortune, with only a
pair of worn shoes and a lightweight shawl as unlikely protection from
the bitter cold. But there's still his trademark mustache, baggy
pants, bowler hat and bamboo cane to help ward off any tendency
audiences might have to take it all seriously. Adrift in the frenzy
of the gold rush, he attempts to survive in the wilds and win the
affections of a dance hall girl. An encounter with a bear, the dance
of the dinner rolls, the "gourmet " cooked-boot dinner, the dance of
the dinner rolls and the storm-blown little cabin teetering over the
edge of a cliffare just a few of the highlights of this graceful
comedy. The Gold Rush was an immediate hit when it opened in the
summer of 1925. When Charlie Chaplin re-edited and reissued the film
with sound in 1942, audiences flocked to see it again, confirming its
status as a Chaplin classic. Voted # 25: The American Film
Institute's 2001 Survey "100 Years /100 Comedies".
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Bruce Calvert
Visit the Silent Film Still Archive
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
Saturday, October 4 7:00 pm at Jaffrey Woman's Club FREE
THE GOLD RUSH (1942 Reissue) with sound effects, an original Music
Score and occasional narration spoken by Charlie
Chaplin.
With Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain
In perhaps his most enduring film, Chaplin plays the Lone Prospector
who journeys to the Klondike in 1898 to make his fortune, with only a
pair of worn shoes and a lightweight shawl as unlikely protection from
the bitter cold. But there's still his trademark mustache, baggy
pants, bowler hat and bamboo cane to help ward off any tendency
audiences might have to take it all seriously. Adrift in the frenzy
of the gold rush, he attempts to survive in the wilds and win the
affections of a dance hall girl. An encounter with a bear, the dance
of the dinner rolls, the "gourmet " cooked-boot dinner, the dance of
the dinner rolls and the storm-blown little cabin teetering over the
edge of a cliffare just a few of the highlights of this graceful
comedy. The Gold Rush was an immediate hit when it opened in the
summer of 1925. When Charlie Chaplin re-edited and reissued the film
with sound in 1942, audiences flocked to see it again, confirming its
status as a Chaplin classic. Voted # 25: The American Film
Institute's 2001 Survey "100 Years /100 Comedies".
--
Bruce Calvert
Visit the Silent Film Still Archive
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com