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The Grub Stake (1923)

The Grub Stake (1923)

Drama Adventure Western
Release Date: 1923, February 18
Directors: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle
Countries: United States of America
Production: Nell Shipman Productions Inc., Nell Shipman Productions Inc., Sierra Pictures, Sierra Pictures
Cast: Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen, George Berrell, Nell Shipman, Walt Whitman, Cecil Van Auker, Ah Wing

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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woman director