Charlie Chaplin (1951)

"The Gold Rush" 193 the table with a knife, and out of the cabin. When Jim fires a gun the flapping wings dissolve to the frightened arms of Charlie. The big man is remorseful, but for safety Charlie buries the gun in the snow. Back inside, Jim reverts to chicken noises. Charlie rushes out for the gun and Jim follows with an axe. There is a chase which ends with the frightened Charlie laid out by the falling door bar, and the delirious giant collapsed in bed. Next morning we see Jim and Charlie in bed, Charlie at the foot, his hands in his protruding shoes, Jim opening one scouting eye. Rising together the two men grapple for the rifle, knocking it to the floor. While they are wrestling, Jim trying to smother Charlie under a blanket as Charlie hangs on to his leg, a bear wanders in. When Charlie extricates himself from the blanket he finds himself gripping the bear's leg. When the bear wanders out again Charlie gets the rifle, fires after him, and, as Jim goes out for the carcass, gaily starts setting the table and sharpening the carving knife. "Then came the parting of the ways." The two shake hands and wander off in opposite directions. Jim finds Black Larsen working his claim. In the ensuing struggle, Jim is hit over the head with a shovel, and Larsen rides off. Then Nature takes a hand and finishes off the desperado in an avalanche. In one of the boom towns created by the gold rush, we are introduced to Georgia, a saucy dancehall girl, as she comes out of a photographer's studio. Proud and independent, she disdains Jack Cameron's offer to join some other dancehall girls he is taking out on a sleigh ride. Then "a disappointed prospector" wanders into town. That night, in the dancehall, people crowd around Georgia to see the picture the photographer has just brought her. Insolent Jack Cameron snatches it; Georgia snatches it back; and the picture is torn. Sauntering in. the little fellow goes unnoticed in the reveling crowd.