While the hero and the villains are having a slobberknocky fight a short distance away, a large bear ambles up to the cabin in which the heroine is sleeping. Some well-trained animals give the serial a big lift and provide a number of good cliffhangers, including in chapter two the single best cliffhanger I have ever seen. Good points-The movie was filmed in striking locations which at least look like it could be Canada. I have tried to give a coherent outline of the basic plot, but if I failed it is somewhat due to this being the usual early thirties "where is the map and whose got the map" repetitious plotting which soon becomes more than a little tedious and hard to follow. The bulk of the plot has the gang trying to get the other half of the map away from Frazer. Gangster Charles King fails to steal the half map from Frazer but follows him to Canada, where King falls in with French-Canadian Al Ferguson and his gang who manage to steal the other half of the map from the heroine and her brother, the children of the other prospecter, who were taken in by a kindly Indian chief after their father was killed. Years later, in the present (1931) Robert Frazer, the nephew of one of the prospecters, comes into possession of one half of a map showing the location of the mine. The plot opens with a years ago intro in which two prospecters have found a gold mine in the Canadian rockies but fall into a fight which leads to an accidental explosion and a mine cave-in. It did have its good points and I found it passably entertaining if watched in the recommended one chapter at a sitting mode. I expected this to be a creaky early talkie serial and it was. *I am going to review obscure serials when I watch them to hopefully stimulate feedback and discussion
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