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The Grub-Stake

Directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle
United States, 1922 (fiction, 117 minutes, black and white)
Also known as "The Golden Yukon", "The Romance of Lost Valley"

Film Description:
"In The Grub-Stake, Shipman plays Faith Diggs, a beautiful young woman who supports herself and her ailing father by taking in laundry and modelling for artists. Enter the villian Leroy who agrees to back her plan to open a laundry in gold rush country. Once in the Klondike, Faith discovers Leroy's true and dastardly schemes. Faith flees with her father in a dogsled and gets hopelessly lost. A series of Shipman's trademark animal and wilderness scenes ensue before Faith is rescued in what Shipman described as a 'sockeroo finish.'"
-- Toronto International Film Festival Group (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Nell Shipman
Produced by: Nell Shipman
Principal Cast: Nell Shipman, Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen, George Berrell, Walt Whitman, C.K. Van Auker, Ah Wing, Lillian Leighton, Marjorie Warfield, Lloyd Peters, Brownie the bear
Cinematography: Joseph B. Walker, Robert S. Newhard
Film Editing: Nell Shipman
Production Company: Nell Shipman Productions
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