Film Background.

The movie takes place in a great depression. Empowered by the Wall Street collapse in 1921, the people began to test their luck, trying to succeed economically, among these fellows is Charles Chaplin, a lone prospector a it's read in the movie, since nothing is said. In that time, it was gossiped that the eastern side of the U.S.A. was much better of, so there was a massive exile from west to east, where tens of thousands decided to flee eastbound. Of course the route wasn't easy, especially for charles, who was a humble, shy and sometimes naive man. On one of his first stops, he finds a cabin, and old, rusty and chubby cabin, that would shelter him from some terrible snow storms going on and that time (seen on the picture on the right). While waiting for the storm to ease, another prospector jumps in to the cabin. A fat and old russian looking fellow, who had recently found a gold mountain that would make him rich. When days go by, hunger starts to rise, and since Charles was a slim and short white looking guy, the fat and big one, sees him as something edible (a chicken) and begins to chace Charles with a shotgun, until, Charles decides to make a meal; Shoe soup. After the storm ends, each of them take their own way.

After a long walk, traveling through cliffs and other dangerous landscapes, charles gets to a littlle miners' town. Where he met Georgia, a nice looking woman who looked like an old fashioned hooker that hangs out with a pimp looking guy. He meets her in a pub and dances with her, hoping that she turns her eyes on him, but of course she doesn't due to his poor looking outfit.

Inspired and hopeful, Charles invites Georgia and her for a new year's eve dinner, in a little cabin where he was put to watching after some guy that had to go travelling, but they never show up, even though he made all the arrangements and even dreamt with that moment. The next day he bumps in the lone prospector that he had met in the cabinet during that blizzard. He, had lost his mind, and didn't remember where the gold mountain was, but he finds Charles and promised him that if he helped him, he would make him rich in a month. Of course, a naive and shy Charles accepted the deal after all, he had nothing to lose. They go back to the cabin, in an adventurous journey, and find the mountain. They become rich, and travel on first class on a ship. Charles accidentally falls down to low class deck, and finds Georgia, who at the end felt pity for him after what they had done to him on new year's eve. They see, kiss and eventually get married, since the movie ends with a close up on their kiss.

The movie was shot in Alaska and California. It took a whole year to finish it and it was the first chaplin's movie to start being filmed after the idea of the movie and scripts are finished.