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.
Phoenix
26th Feb 2004
The Gold Rush (1925)
4th Feb 2004
The Gold Rush (1925)
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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Suggested correction: Chaplin wasn't hospitalized. He and Mack Swain did eat so much licorice in the many takes Chaplin took of the eating-the-boot scene that they both very much suffered from the laxative effects of licorice, i.e., severe diarrhea.
4th Feb 2004
The Gold Rush (1925)
Revealing mistake: When Chaplin is performing the Oceana Roll, the edge of his white makeup is visible on his right cheek.