Period horror comedies were virtually unheard of in 1967, and although all of Roman Polanski’s work up to that year had shone a flair for blacker-than-pitch grave-digger humor, this would be the first time he had
experimented with outright comedy
Charlie Chaplin wanted The Gold Rush to be the film we remember him by. It is, especially in the form of this two-disc release, and Steve Uhler explains why.
