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Considered by some to be Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece. Added to the National Film Registry with the Registry's fourth induction class, in 1992.

 

* [[The Danza]]: Georgia.

* [[Eating Shoes]]: Chaplin is the [[Trope Namer]].

** Somehow played straight and averted at the beginning, when nearly as soon as the Tramp appears, already only wearing his Tramp clothes in a blizzard and wandering lost in the mountains, he starts getting followed by a bear without noticing. ...but then they just go in different directions after awhile. In the meantime, it is hysterical.

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]

** Debatable. As the ending makes clear, Georgia has come to care about Charlie without knowing that he struck it rich--she believes that he is a stowaway and tries to hide him from the ship's stewards. (He has put his old tattered Tramp clothes back on when they meet again.)

* [[Happy Ending]]: one of the very few pure, unadulterated ones in the Chaplin canon where Charlie not only becomes a millionaire, but gets the girl afterward. It's even lampshaded in the 1942 narration.

* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: the cabin.

* [[Meat O Vision]]: Jim sees Charlie as a chicken. Possibly the [[Trope Maker]].

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