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...Gold Rush. "I thought you was a chicken," says Big Jim McKay to prospector Charlie Chaplin. "GEORGIA!" Charlie screams in big letters later on. This 1925 movie is so good that there would be little reason to write about anything else this week...
...hair-raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...
...Gold Rush. Perhaps no other film is so lighthearted and yet so moving. Charlie Chaplin's story of a lone prospector during the Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse; Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many of Chaplin's most famous scenes are found here: the dance of the rolls, Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken, Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands...
Died. Tim Holt, 54, straight-shooting hero of scores of grade-B movie westerns who occasionally starred in better roles (as the greenhorn prospector in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the grandson in The Magnificent Ambersons); of cancer; in Shawnee, Okla...
...Gold Rush. Perhaps no other film is so lighthearted and yet so moving. Charlie Chaplin's story of a lone prospector during the Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse: Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many of Chaplin's most famous scenes are found here: the dance of the rolls. Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken. Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands...