The Ice Flood (1926)

Jack De Quincy an American graduate of Oxford is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp filled with brawny hemen who spend their time drinking gambling and brawling when not cutting timber Once there Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against DumDum Pete the toughest man in those parts Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camps mascot a crippled young boy and saves his sweetheart Marie ONei that daughter of a rival lumber company from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an icebreak flood