Product Description

Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 07/27/2004

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70380 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 74 minutes

Customer Reviews

The Salmon Chase
THE SILVER HORDE is a remake of a 1920 silent photoplay. It's set in Alaska, where the novel's author Rex Lease spent five years as an unsuccessful Gold Rush prospector. The titled "horde" are salmon.

THE STORY:
Boyd Emerson (McCrea) and his pal Fraser (Hatton) explore Alaska's wilderness. They meet copper miner Cherry Malotte (Brent) and she puts together a business deal for Boyd, as operator of a salmon fishery. Cherry loves Boyd but his heart belongs to a Seattle deb named Mildred Wayland (Arthur). Mildred's jealous father (Pratt) and the owner of a rival fishing fleet (Gordon) try to sabotage Boyd's business. The ensuing confrontation has tragic results.


ALPHA VIDEO is a provider of vintage movies, serials and TV programs, many of which aren't available elsewhere. Their prices are fair, but so is transfer quality of some of their offerings. None have undergone restoration, yet the market scarcity of their material and an honest price make these DVDs a worthwhile purchase.

SHADOW OF CHINATOWN (1936) is another interesting ALPHA obscurity. This Bela Lugosi feature was originally a 15-part serial.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(6.4) The Silver Horde (1930) - Evelyn Brent/Louis Wolheim/Joel McCrea/Raymond Hatton/Jean Arthur/Gavin Gordon/Blanche Sweet/Purnell Pratt


CAST TRIVIA--

EVELYN BRENT was a fashion model as a teenager. In the late silent era, she was a favorite of director Josef Von Sternberg.

LOUIS WOLHEIM had a minor role in John Barrymore's DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920), and was the executioner in D.W. Griffith's classic ORPHANS OF THE STORM (1921).

Pasadena, CA native JOEL MCCREA was the grandson of a western stagecoach driver who fought against the Apaches.

RAYMOND HATTON had a 48 year movie career that began in 1909. He's best remembered for the Rough Riders and Three Mesquiteers western series.

JEAN ARTHUR debuted on screen in CAMEO KIRBY (1923), and was last seen in SHANE(1953).

Except for a cameo in THE FIVE PENNIES (1959), this was Blanche Sweet's last film.

Trivial interest to Arthur & McCrea fans.
I loved Jean Arthur in later films like Only Angels Have Wings and Talk Of The Town, and my mother is a fan of Arthur and Joel McCrea, so I got this one for my mother just to see them in an early role. Frankly it turned out that's all it's good for. The plot concerns a feud between fishermen and miners up north, and a resulting love triangle, but it had me bored to the point I couldn't follow the plot clear through, started to nod off a few times. It's one of those early talkies that has no score, and Jean Arthur is in only a few scenes so it's hardly worth it for her. If there are any die-hard Joel McCrea fans left, you might like it.

not worth the time to watch
this is an old poorly made and acted movie. It wasn't worth my money to ship, much less buy. Not even a good B movie.