CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S THE GOLD RUSH

The Big Picture and Phantom Theater are thrilled to present The Gold Rush- one of the greatest and most classic silent movies, accompanied with piano music by Randall Pierce. A delightful blend of slapstick humor, poignant emotion, and social commentary, The Gold Rush encapsulates Chaplin's strengths as a writer, director, and star. While on a mission to find gold in Alaska, a lone prospector and Big Jim, a gold seeker, take refuge in a cabin during a blizzard. Chaplin - proving his belief that tragedy and ridicule are never far apart - set out to transform tales of privation and horror into a comedy. He decided that his familiar tramp figure should become a gold prospector, joining the mass of brave optimists to face all the hazards of cold, starvation, solitude, and the occasional incursion of a grizzly bear.

Randal Pierce is a composer and pianist living in Burlington, VT.  He has been commissioned to write…