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The Grub-Stake

192399 minUnited States
Adventure
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
100:56
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Nell Shipman / Bert Van Tuyle · Public domain

Synopsis

Unable to afford medicine for her father, Faith accepts a man's offer to help her establish a new life in the north. His promises of work and marriage conceal an intention to exploit her. Discovering the deception sends her into a struggle for independence, where unfamiliar terrain and unexpected allies offer an alternative to the future he has arranged.

Cast

DirectorsBert Van TuyleNell Shipman

Behind the scenes

Nell Shipman wrote, starred in and co-directed the independent production with Bert Van Tuyle. Filming in Washington and Idaho supplied the landscapes for its northern adventure, making location work central to the story's possibilities of escape.

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