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Avalanche

Avalanche

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 10, 1928

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Western

Original Title

Avalanche

Production Companies

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

Director

Otto Brower

Description

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.