The Gold Rush

Trivia: In the famous scene where Chaplin eats a shoe, the shoe was made of licorice. Chaplin repeated the scene so many times that he was hospitalized for hyperglycemia.

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Trivia: In the establishing shot of the gold rush miners, all the miners were played by homeless men hired off the street on the day of shooting.

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Continuity mistake: Early in the film, after the tramp slides down the hill and takes out his map, he points to it. In the close-up shots he is not wearing gloves, but in the wide shot he has black gloves on.

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