The Trail of '98

Clarence Brown, 1928, MGM: the Klondike stampede from Robert W. Service, Dolores del Río and Ralph Forbes walking the Chilkoot, Harry Carey as the man who is already rich and already rotten. Avalanches, rapids, a Dawson of saloons. A million-and-a-half-dollar silent about what a gold rush costs the people who arrive late. Brown, later Garbo's director, here making landscape do the acting.