The Grip of the Yukon | |
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Film still | |
Directed by | Ernst Laemmle |
Written by | Charles Logue (adaptation & scenario) Tom Reed (titles) Buford Bennett (titles) |
Based on | The Yukon Trail, A Tale of the North by William MacLeod Raine |
Starring | Francis X. Bushman Neil Hamilton |
Cinematography | Jackson Rose |
Edited by | Maurice Pivar Ted Kent |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 65 mins. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Grip of the Yukon is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle, the nephew of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. The film starred Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton, and is based on a novel by William MacLeod Raine, "The Yukon Trail, A Tale of the North".
Plot
An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes.
Cast
- Francis X. Bushman as Colby MacDonald
- Neil Hamilton as Jack Elliott
- June Marlowe as Sheila O'Neil
- Otis Harlan as Farrell O'Neil
- Burr McIntosh as Chardon, hotelkeeper
- James Farley as Sheriff
Preservation status
The Grip of the Yukon is now presumed lost. However, a 16mm print of the film may exist.
References
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Grip of the Yukon at silentera.com
- The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Grip of the Yukon
- The Grip of the Yukon at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Universal Pictures 1928
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- 1920s adventure drama films
- American adventure drama films
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films set in Yukon
- Universal Pictures films
- Films directed by Ernst Laemmle
- Lost American Western (genre) films
- 1928 lost films
- 1928 drama films
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- 1920s American films
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- 1920s English-language films
- English-language adventure drama films
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