Karl Dane

The story of gold and greed and the men and women who became caught up in it, often tragically, during the great Alaskan gold rush. A silent film.

A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.

Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy!