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The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

208 - The Gold Rush & More

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

Video Archives Podcast, LLC.

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8828 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Video Archives Podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary strike rich in THE GOLD RUSH.  A gold prospector, played by Charlie Chaplin, struggle to survive the elements while he tries to win the heart of a dance hall girl.  Viewed all together at the New Beverly Cinema, Quentin and Roger discuss the reaction of the audience, the success of a physical silent comedy, and directors who had the power to get stuff done.

Then, over on Patreon — 91 thousand people.  33 exit gates.  One sniper.  Quentin and Roger are in the stadium in Two-Minute Warning to discuss the history of the film, it’s connections to Black Sunday, and how the various stories coalesce into one final shot. And to wrap up the night, a Crown International title: Pom Pom Girls. It's full of pranks, romps, and good ole fashion cheer. Come on down to the game, it'll be a blast.

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Video Archives podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery strike rich in The Gold Rush.

0:08.1

A gold prospector, played by Charlie Chaplin, struggles to survive the elements while he tries to win the heart of a dance hall girl.

0:15.7

Viewed all together at the new Beverly cinema, Quentin and Roger discussed the reaction of the audience,

0:26.6

the success of a physical, silent comedy, and directors who had the power to get stuff done. Next up, 91,000 people, 33 exit gates, one sniper.

0:33.6

Quentin and Roger are in the stadium in two-minute warning. Viewed on a video

0:40.0

archives laser disc, Quentin and Roger share with us the history on two-minute warning,

0:45.0

its connections to Black Sunday, and how the various stories coalesce into one final

0:50.2

shock. And to wrap up the night, a crown international title, Pompom

0:55.8

Girls, directed by Joseph Rubin. It's full of pranks, romps, and good old-fashioned cheer.

1:01.0

Come on down to the game. It'll be a blast. I'm Gala Avery, and joining us now, here's Roger

1:06.9

Avery and Quentin Tarantino.

1:10.5

And thank you, Gala.

1:12.5

Welcome back to another episode of the video archives podcast, Kill That Bacalov.

1:18.6

And here we are.

1:20.3

So we've got three movies to start with today.

1:24.1

We're going back and forth about what we should be starting with.

1:32.3

We're starting off with Charlie Chaplin's classic The Gold Rush. Finally taking on a silent film.

1:34.3

Yeah, finally. Finally, it's about time we've taken on a silent film.

1:37.3

Then we had the film, a two-minute warning about the sniper at the Super Bowl

1:42.3

with Charlton Heston and John Cassavetes in an all-star

1:45.9

cast and we ended off with my favorite by far Crown International epic the pom-pom girl

1:52.5

amongst other people Robert Carity so we're we're starting off with the charlie

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