Avalanche

1928 · Directed by Otto Brower · Western film, silent film

★ 10.0/10 · 1 ratings on TMDB

An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.