The Grub Stake (1923)

1923 · Silent film · 5 min · dir. Nell Shipman

• Western
• Drama

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Nell Shipman

Studio

Nell Shipman Productions Inc., Sierra Pictures

Released

1923-02-18

Running time

5 minutes

Cast & crew

• Nell Shipman Director
• Nell Shipman
• Hugh Thompson
• Alfred Allen
• Lillian Leighton
• George Berrell
• Walt Whitman
• CCecil Van Auker
• Ah Wing

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