“"With his back to the wall he took one last desperate chance and - just wait until you see Conway Tearle in 'Bucking the Tiger'"”
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.
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Conway Tearle
Ritchie MacDonald
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Winifred Westover
Emily Dwyer
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Gladden James
Ralph Graham
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Helen Montrose
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Sadie Love
George A. Wright
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William Hillyer
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Henry Kolker Director · May Tully Writer Achmed Abdullah Story
United States release April 1, 1921 · Produced in United States
Production
Selznick Pictures
Production
United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · April 1, 1921
Theatrical
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