The Grip of the Yukon is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle, the nephew of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle.
The film starred Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton, and is based on a novel by William MacLeod Raine, "The Yukon Trail, A Tale of the North".
[1] An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states.
And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes.
The film was shot during the summer of 1927 on Stage 28, where the interior was transformed into a glacier.