The Gold Rush [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"The Gold Rush, Charles Chaplin's second feature for United Artists, was the film by which, he said at the time, he wanted to be remembered. It is considered by most critics and directors to be one of the greatest films ever made, an epic, but with the delicate character touches that so characterize Chaplin's later work. Its setting and theme were suggested to Chaplin by two sources -- seeing a stereopticon slide of gold miners climbing the Chilkoot Pass in 1898 Alaska, and reading of the D...