Variety sang its praises, Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush maintains its status as a great and elaborate comedy.

Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp was an overnight worldwide sensation. There had never been anything that big, that global, in human history. The Little Tramp was an Everyman with universal appeal.

Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and morality as they were applied—namely, against the downtrodden, the ...