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Movie poster: The New Klondike (1926)
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The New Klondike

1926 · 80 min Romance Comedy Drama
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1926
Country United States of America
Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director Lewis Milestone
Runtime 80 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a sharp satire on the baseball diamond and the speculative swamp, exploring how ambition morphs into opportunism during a land rush. It relies on the frenetic energy of the Jazz Age to frame a comedy of errors where every swing is a financial gamble.

What lingers after the final deal is a sly grin at the American hustle, where the real game is played with contracts, not fastballs. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Lewis Milestone

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With a cool drink in hand, best enjoyed with a sense of humor about get-rich-quick schemes.

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