Lalo Encinas

A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.

Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.

Jack Thornton et Shortie Holliman, chercheurs d'or, partent vers les montagnes enneigees. Sur la route, ils rencontrent Claire Blake, dont le mari est parti au ravitaillement. Elle leur montre l'emplacement de la mine. Shortie se rend en ville pour faire enregistrer sa concession et entre Jack et Claire une idylle commence...

Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself be caught with maps showing false Union troop positions. Of course, the penalty, then as now, is execution.

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.