Returning to Alaska with new machinery and Balt's crew, Boyd gets the cannery running in weeks, just in time for the annual salmon run. Boyd assumes, however, that it was due to Mildred's influence with her father. Cherry then secures the loan by taking up Hilliard's offer to go to his apartment. He explains that the young man already has a girlfriend, and points out the couple dancing elsewhere in the establishment. It soon becomes plain to the banker that Cherry has fallen in love with Boyd. Notified, Cherry sails for Seattle and dines with Hilliard. Wayne Wayland and Marsh conspire and get Cherry's financing withdrawn. When Marsh provokes him, Boyd carelessly blurts out his plans. She is determined to marry him, despite her father's wish that she wed someone with wealth: none other than Fred Marsh. After concluding the deal, Boyd goes to see his socialite fiancée, Mildred Wayland. She sends him, Fraser and Balt to Seattle to get a loan of $200,000 from Cherry's banker friend, Tom Hilliard, to rebuild a cannery. Cherry reinvigorates him and persuades him to join her side. She explains that they have stumbled into a bitter struggle between two rival fishing groups, hers and Fred Marsh's.īoyd is ready to give up his fruitless search for gold. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. In the Alaskan wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser, arrive by dogsled at a village. The title is a reference to the salmon fishing industry in Alaska, and the color of the fish bulging in the fishermen's nets. The first filming of The Silver Horde was a silent 1920 film also titled The Silver Horde. ĭirected by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, it is the second film adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same name by Rex Beach, which is a follow up to his earlier novel, The Spoilers. The Silver Horde is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by top-billed Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur.

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