The Silver Horde (RKO). They are still making films out of Rex Beach's stories. This one, like the rest, is complicated, violent, highly naive: the nobility of the hero is 100% and so is the villainy of the villains. The theme of the picture is the struggle of opposing interests for control of the Yukon salmon fisheries. It contains a few great sequences: the beautiful silver hordes of fish whirling down the river and lifted, struggling, into the fishing boats out of the heavy nets.
The Virtuous...
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