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Genre
  
Drama

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Country
  
United States

6.2/10
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Director
  
Screenplay
  
Wallace Smith

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
October 24, 1930 (1930-10-24) ( Premiere-New York City)October 25, 1930 (1930-10-25) (U.S.)

Based on
  
Writer
  
Rex Beach (by), Wallace Smith (adaptation)

Cast
  
(Cherry Malotte), (George Balt), (Boyd Emerson), (Fraser), (Mildred Wayland), (Fred Marsh)

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The Silver Horde is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea, in his second leading role, as a fisherman torn between two women, played by Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur.

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Directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, it is the second film adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same name by Rex Beach, which is a follow up to his earlier novel, The Spoilers. The first filming of The Silver Horde was a silent 1920 film also titled The Silver Horde. The title is a reference to salmon fishing industry in Alaska, and the color of the fish bulging in the fishermen's nets.

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Plot

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In the Alaska wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser, arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte. She invites the newcomers to dinner. She explains that they have stumbled into a bitter struggle between two rival fishing groups, hers and Fred Marsh's.

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Boyd is ready to give up his fruitless search for gold. Cherry reinvigorates him and persuades him to join her side. She sends him, Fraser and Balt to Seattle to get a loan of $200,000 from Cherry's banker friend, Tom Hilliard, to rebuild a cannery. After concluding the deal, Boyd goes to see his socialite fiancée, Mildred Wayland. She is determined to marry him, despite her father's wish that she wed someone with wealth: none other than Fred Marsh. When Marsh provokes him, Boyd carelessly blurts out his plans. Wayne Wayland and Marsh conspire and succeed in having Cherry's financing withdrawn.

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Notified, Cherry sails for Seattle and dines with Hilliard. It soon becomes plain to the banker that Cherry has fallen in love with Boyd. He explains that the young man already has a girlfriend, and points out the couple dancing elsewhere in the establishment. Cherry then secures the loan by taking up Hilliard's offer to go to his apartment. Boyd assumes, however, that it was due to Mildred's influence with her father.

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Returning to Alaska with new machinery and Balt's crew, Boyd gets the cannery running in weeks, just in time for the annual salmon run. When Marsh sends his men to wreck their equipment, a brawl breaks out on the water, during which the Waylands arrive on their yacht.

Marsh tells Mildred about Cherry, that she is a notorious prostitute known from Sitka to San Francisco. He lies, telling Mildred that Cherry got the loan by spending the night with Hilliard at Boyd's insistence, and that she is more than Boyd's business partner. Mildred ends her engagement, despite Boyd's protests of innocence. Boyd, meanwhile, breaks up with Cherry when she cannot deny how she got the money.

Concerned only about Boyd's happiness, Cherry contacts an old friend in her former trade, Queenie. The two board the Wayland yacht, where Cherry proves that Queenie is Marsh's wife. Cherry then convinces Mildred that, while she loves Boyd, nothing happened between them. When Boyd shows up, Mildred is eager to take him back, but by this time, he realizes who he truly loves. He finds Cherry and tells her he cares only about their future together, not her past.

Cast

  • Evelyn Brent as Cherry Malotte
  • Louis Wolheim as George Balt
  • Joel McCrea as Boyd Emerson
  • Raymond Hatton as Fraser
  • Jean Arthur as Mildred Wayland
  • Gavin Gordon as Fred Marsh
  • Blanche Sweet as Queenie (Sweet's final screen performance)
  • Purnell Pratt as Wayne Wayland
  • William B. Davidson as Tom Hilliard
  • Ivan Linow as Svenson
  • Production

    The film was shot on location in Ketchikan, Alaska.

    Reception

    The film recorded a loss of $100,000.

    In 1958, the film entered the public domain in the USA due to the copyright claimants failure to renew the copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

    References

    The Silver Horde (1930 film) Wikipedia
    The Silver Horde (1930 film) IMDbThe Silver Horde (1930 film) Amazon.comThe Silver Horde (1930 film) themoviedb.org