This weekend in the Chicago area:
The Wilmette Theater
1122 Central Ave., Wilmette, Illinois
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Fri 6/15 - Wed 6/20
Fri: 5:00, 7:10
Sat: 2:30, 5:00, 7:10
Sun: 7:10
Mon-Tues: 2:30, 5:00, 7:10
Wed: 5:00
Gold Rush (1925)
78 Minutes
THE COMPLETE 1925 VERSION, NEWLY RESTORED!
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. But bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit and an escaped fugitive. After the storm, Chaplin continues on to a gold rush town where he falls in love with a lonely saloon girl (Georgia Hale) whom he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim by leading him back to the cabin.
Despite its reputation as one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema, The Gold Rush has long been unavailable in its original form, following Chaplin’s 1942 “sound version” and his dictate that the original only be screened with live orchestral accompaniment. Now, in collaboration with the Cineteca Bologna and the Chaplin Estate, Janus Films is proud to present a 35mm restoration of the film, complete with a newly recorded orchestral score. Moving, hilarious, and full of invention, The Gold Rush has never looked – or sounded – better.