The Grub Stake (1923)

6.5/10 99 min Drama Adventure Western

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.

Cast

Nell Shipman

Faith Diggs

Hugh Thompson

Jeb

Alfred Allen

Mark Leroy

Lillian Leighton

George Berrell

Malamute Mike

Walt Whitman

The Skipper

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