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This article is from the Movie Trivia,
by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions
by others.
593 Gold Rush, The (1925)
- The 2,500 men playing prospectors were real vagrants who were hired for
one day's pay.
- There was 27 times more film shot than appeared in the final cut.
- The scene where The Lone Prospector and Big Jim have a boot for supper took
three days and 63 takes to suit director 'Charles Chaplin' (qv). The boot
was made of licorice, and Chaplin was later rushed to hospital suffering
insulin shock.
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