Gold Rush

I haven’t seen many Chaplain films, but this was more enjoyable than City Lights. The physical comedy is great, and it’s fun to see references to it in present day movies; the gag with pretending to be asleep with the shoes on the hands featured prominently in the Hindi film Chennai Express. The storytelling is a bit loose—most of it feels like scenes to move from one situational gag to the next with the plot as at artifice bolted on top, but it doesn’t quite feel natural.