A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the husband and marries the wife.
Acting
Wallace Beery's villainous charm before talkies.
Production
Surviving stills suggest lurid, shadow-drenched mine sets.
Director
Jacques Jaccard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of hundreds of silent films destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire—presumed lost forever.
Director Jacques Jaccard specialized in 'Western Horrors' blending frontier settings with Gothic dread.
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