The Grub Stake(1923)

movie - first aired/released 1923-02-18 - 99 min - audience 6.5

Drama, Adventure, Western

Directed by Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman

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.