All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim

All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Franklyn Barrett. Only a few frames of the film survive.

Englishman Jack Cardigan Herbert J. Bentley strikes gold and writes a letter to his girlfriend, Nora Lilian Teece, to tell her of the news. He gives the letter to a friend, Ralph Blackstone Hilliard Vox who poisons Cardigans drink, throws his body in the river and takes over his claim.However, when in Sydney, he accidentally allows the letter to come into Noras possession and she decides to investigate. While Blackstone goes back to the mine by train, she tries to beat him there by taking a speedboat across Sydney harbour, then driving a fast car. She arrives to find Cardigan still alive and recovering. Cardigan gets his claim back and is reunited with Nora. ........

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