LA Chamber Orchestra: Silent Film Celebration June 7, 2009

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is proud to present Charlie Chaplin’s greatest and most ambitious silent comedy, The Gold Rush (1925). Subtitled “A Dramatic Comedy,” the film finds Chaplin portraying a lone prospector who searches for love and acceptance in the frenzy of the great Klondike gold rush.

The Gold Rush contains many of Chaplin’s most celebrated comedy sequences, including the boiling and eating of his shoe, the dance of the dinner rolls, and the teetering cabin. Chaplin had no reservations about the finished product. Indeed, at the time of the film’s release he was quoted, “This is the picture that I want to be remembered by.”

LACO will present the restoration print of Chaplin’s complete 1925 cut of the film with the musical score Chaplin composed for the film’s 1942 reissue.

Written, Produced, and Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Starring Charlie Chaplin with Georgia Hale and Mack Swain

Music by Charlie Chaplin; restored, adapted, and conducted by Timothy Brock.

Performed live by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Dustin Hoffman, honorary chairman
Hanna M. Kennedy and Roger L. Mayer, co-chairmen

For more information, please call the LACO box office at 213 622 7001 × 215.
box office info

Film tickets: $35, 75
Film & post-film supper: $300

Official Website: http://www.laco.org/events/108/