Klondike

Klondike

Romance on the frozen plain. The story of a great shadow in the land of the midnight sun.

NR 1932 · 68 min · ★ 5.2 · Adventure, Drama

Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...

Directed by Phil Rosen · Written by Tristram Tupper

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Thelma Todd Klondike
Lyle Talbot Robert Cromwell
Henry B. Walthall Mark Armstrong
Jason Robards Sr. Jim Armstrong
Priscilla Dean Miss Porter
Tully Marshall Hinman
Pat O'Malley Burke
Myrtle Stedman Miss Fielding
Ethel Wales Sadie Jones
George 'Gabby' Hayes Tom Ross
Frank Hawks Donald Evans
Earl Dwire Jury Foreman

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