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City of Gold

5.8(13)195722m1

Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Still photographs juxtapose Dawson City today against its bustling height in the gold rush.

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English
  • gold rush
  • mining

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  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalG2 May 1957
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereSource: IMDB (Cannes)2 May 1957

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City of Gold was released on 2 May 1957.

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    CinemaSerf

    2/16/2024

    6/10

    The first few scenes illustrate a town that little resembles the famed towns of the gold rush. Dawson City as it now is has a restaurant where people drink coffee with saucers under their cups under the gaze of a picture of The Queen on the wall. Now, all of the frenzy has gone and much of this place is abandoned and derelict. Nature is reclaiming the land so hastily claimed from it seven decades earlier - even the o…

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