Paid in Advance is a 1919 American silent drama film set during the Alaska Gold Rush, from the story The Girl Who Dared by James Oliver Curwood.

[2] A nitrate stock print (with Czech subtitles) is housed at the Narodni Filmovy Archive in Czechoslovakia[3] John Gray, an old fur trapper, lives with his beautiful daughter Joan in the Canadian Northwest.

"Gold Dust" Barker and his henchman, Regan, convince John Gray to return to the Yukon with them as head trapper, and they offer his daughter Joan work as a nurse.

Deciding there is only one hope for escape from this life, Joan puts on a flashy dance costume, rushes on stage, and offers herself in marriage to the highest bidder.

The cast, so far as the principals are concerned, is made up entirely of screen favorites, and so excellent is the team work of these tried players that the numerous tense situations are raised to extreme dramatic heights."