The Gold Rush

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Amy & Paul dig into 1925's chilly Charlie Chaplin comedy The Gold Rush! They wonder whether the Tramp smells bad, learn about the tradition of Christmas crackers, and ask if this is the best Chaplin film on the AFI list. Plus: Composer Cliff Retallick talk about what it's like to compose for silent film screenings.How would you cast a modern version of The Wild Bunch? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 1925 and it's time to pop off that shoe, throw it in some boiling water and get ready to chow down
0:06.8	because we're talking about the gold rush.
0:09.3	Hey everybody, welcome to UnSchooled.
0:30.9	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.9	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where each week we look at one film on the AFI's
0:36.4	top 100 greatest films of all time list to see if they are still as good as people say how
0:42.3	they've influenced the films we watch now and if they simply hold up.
0:48.7	Today we are talking about the Charlie Chaplin film, the gold rush.
0:51.0	It's the second Chaplin that we have done on the podcast and I'm so excited to talk to you
0:55.7	about that Amy.
0:56.7	But before we get into that, let's review what people were saying last week about Dr. Strangelove.
1:01.9	Yeah, Sean Redletts made a really good point.
1:05.7	He's like, you guys talked about Dr. Strangelove and you didn't bring up duck soup even once.
1:09.8	Oh yeah.
1:10.8	Another film that is satirizing war in another film that he says would have been even more in conversation
1:15.4	if Kubrick had given us that pie fight ending.
1:17.7	Yes.
1:18.7	I love that connection.
1:19.7	I think that's incredibly smart.
1:20.7	Thank you Sean.
1:21.7	And Ian Stewart wrote, Amy mentions how hard it must have been not to laugh at Peter Sellers
1:26.1	and there's one moment where the Russian diplomat is clearly holding back laughter.
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