I must admit, the title made me think of some miners angrily wielding pickaxes at each other. Instead, we get a snowy melodrama about a disgraced surgeon who finds himself snowed in for the winter after the aeroplane he was piloting crashed in a storm. Luckily “Rogers” (Edmund Lowe) was rescued by “Sam” (Robert Middlemass) and taken to recuperate at his remote staging post where he is cared for by “Peg” (Lucile Fairbanks). She is also looking after “Jim” (William Henry) - a young man who is confined to a wheelchair with an inoperable brain tumour as well as being in love with her. He gets jeal…
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