The Trail of '98

The Trail of '98

🎞️ Movie 87 min US
โ˜… 7.0 /10 1928

SEE It all vividly re-enacted before your eyes...The Klondike Gold Rush...Chilcoot Pass...The gigantic Snow Slide...The White Horse Rapids...The Burning of Dawson...and a Thousand Spectacular Visions of the Century's Greatest Adventure

The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. Joe and Jim, brothers from South Carolina; Lars, escaping a shrewish wife in Michigan; a poor farmer from Kansas; weathered prospectors from Nevada; and countless others leave San Francisco by ship. The Bulkys head north to open a restaurant, bringing a poor relative, Berna, along to help. On board Berna meets Larry and falls in love. The overland route to Dawson City is hazardous and arduous. Each person must carry their own food, a ton of it. That means traveling 80 miles back and forth to advance one mile, carrying 50 pounds a trip. The Chilkoot Pass is one of the worst sections of the trail. In the spring the trekkers take to the rivers, swollen by melting ice. Whitehorse Rapids proves the last and biggest obstacle to reaching the gold fields. But that's not the end of the hardships. Claim jumping, blizzards, fires, and Berna's honor at stake are to be faced before striking it rich.

Cast

Dolores Del Río
Dolores Del Río
Berna
Ralph Forbes
Ralph Forbes
Larry
Karl Dane
Karl Dane
Lars Petersen
Harry Carey
Harry Carey
Jack Locasto
Tully Marshall
Tully Marshall
Salvation Jim
George Cooper
George Cooper
Samuel Foote - The Worm
Russell Simpson
Russell Simpson
Old Swede
Emily Fitzroy
Emily Fitzroy
Mrs. Bulkey
Tenen Holtz
Tenen Holtz
Mr. Bulkey
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Cesare Gravina
Henry Kelland - Berna's Grandfather
John F. Seitz
John F. Seitz
Cinematographer