Bucking the Tiger

Bucking the Tiger

"With his back to the wall he took one last desperate chance and - just wait until you see Conway Tearle in 'Bucking the Tiger'"

1921 · ★ 9.0 · Drama

Five down-on-their-luck miners in Circle City, Alaska gather at a local hotel, desperate to recoup their depleted finances. MacDonald, a former football star, suggests they buy an insurance policy on whichever man draws the fatal ace. At the end of the year, that man would commit suicide so the remaining four could collect the payout. MacDonald purposefully draws the ace, but soon after discovers a gold vein in his mine. He abandons the suicidal insurance plan and shares his newfound wealth with the group. The fortune also saves a woman named Emily—who traveled to the harsh north to marry a man who turned out to be broke—and she begins a romance with MacDonald instead.

Directed by Henry Kolker · Written by Achmed Abdullah

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Conway Tearle Ritchie MacDonald
Winifred Westover Emily Dwyer
Gladden James Ralph Graham
Helen Montrose Skaguay Belle
George A. Wright The Count
Templar Saxe William Hillyer
Harry Lee Andy Walsh

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