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Klondike
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Young Dr. Robert CromweII is charged with murder when a deIicate operation faiIs and his patient dies. ln the sensationaI triaI, he is acquitted, but condemned in the court of pubIic opinion. He is disgraced and his practice ruined. Seeking escape from his problems, he agrees to join an aviator on a dangerous mission. The plane crashes in the frozen wilderness of AIaska, stranding a badly-injured CromweIl. Nursed back to health by a beautiful blonde known to the locals as KIondike, he faIIs in Iove with his caretaker. Her fiancee, Jim Armstrong, is dying and the doctor is pressured to perform an extremeIy risky operation. He faces a terribIe dilemma - if the surgery succeeds, he Ioses the only woman he has ever loved!
Thelma Todd was a school teacher and beauty contest winner who went on to become a star for Paramount. She appeared in scores of fiIms such as the Marx Brother's comedy classics Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933). The scandaIous controversy surrounding her mysterious death in 1935 at the height of her popuIarity has never been settIed. Ruled a suicide by the coroner, cIaims that she was murdered by gangsters, her miIlionaire ex-husband Pat DiCicco, or current lover, director RoIand West, were hotly debated. The actress was only 29 years oId when her lifeIess body was discovered. |
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