Belle of Alaska is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Chester Bennett and starring J. Frank Glendon, Jane Novak and Noah Beery.
Plot A Kansas farmer and his wife leave for Alaska to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush, but she becomes separated from him and ends up working in a dance hall owned by the gambler Lucky Vail.
Cast J. Frank Glendon as Lucky Vail Jane Novak as Ruth Harkin Noah Beery Sr. as Wade Harkin Florence Carpenter as Chicago Belle Les Bates as Dugan
Censorship Before Belle of Alaska could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of a scene where a man is unbuttoning his coat before he assaults a woman.
Preservation Belle of Alaska is currently presumed lost. In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
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