Fighting for Gold
Cast & Crew
Edward J. Lesaint
Tom Mix
Teddy Sampson
Sid Jordan
Jack Nelson
H. Lounsdale
Film Details
Synopsis
Jack Kilmeny, the heir to a dukedom, owns a valuable gold mine in the American West with his wayward partner, Curly Brandon, also from an English family. After Jack fights four men sent to take his claim by Lord Farquar, the owner of a British mining company, he falls in love with the Lord's daughter Moya, after saving her when his pet grizzly bear disrupts a picnic and frightens her horses, who carry her off in a wagon. Accused of theft when Curly, to please a dance hall girl, dresses in Jack's clothes and robs a man, Jack escapes the sheriff, finds Curly, and convinces him to leave the girl. After returning the money, Jack is permitted to go to his claim, which is threatened by Moya's suitor, Bobyan Verinder. Jack arrives to stop Verinder's hired men from attacking Moya. After Curly saves Jack, confesses the theft, and fulfills his ambition to die like a gentleman, Jack and Moya marry.
Director
Edward J. Lesaint
Cast
Tom Mix
Teddy Sampson
Sid Jordan
Jack Nelson
H. Lounsdale
Robert Dunbar
Hattie Buskirk
Frank Clark
Lucille Young
Crew
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Notes
The working title for this film was The Highgrader. Exhibitor's Trade Review reviewer Helen Rockwell noted the film's depiction of "the silly-ass type of Englishman who is discomfited on every provocation."
