The Grub Stake (1923)
99 min
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.
- Release date
- February 18, 1923
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Nell Shipman as Faith Diggs
- Hugh Thompson as Jeb
- Alfred Allen as Mark Leroy
- Lillian Leighton as Dawson Kate
- George Berrell as Malamute Mike
- Walt Whitman as The Skipper
- Cecil Van Auker as The Mounty
- Ah Wing as Wong
- Lloyd Peters as Bartender
- Marjorie Warfield as Art Student
Crew
- Nell Shipman · Director
- Bert Van Tuyle · Director
- Nell Shipman · Writer
- Ernest Shipman · Producer
- Nell Shipman · Producer
- Joseph Walker · Cinematographer
- Nell Shipman · Editor