Movie
The Grub Stake
1923 · 99 min
A rugged silent melodrama that swings between cruel deception and wild wilderness survival, with earnest emotion and striking outdoor imagery.
- Directed by
- Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Western
- Starring
- Nell Shipman, Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen
- Overview
- A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
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- Directed by
- Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Western
- Starring
- Nell Shipman, Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen
