Call of the Yukon
Call of the Yukon is a 1938 American action adventure film produced and released by Republic Pictures, directed by John T. Coyle and B. Reeves Eason and starring Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts and Lyle Talbot. The film features extensive Alaskan location shooting by Norman Dawn who shot several films there. The film is based on the 1926 novel Swift Lightning A Story Of Wildlife Adventure In The Frozen North by Northern genre writer James Oliver Curwood. The film's working titles were Thunder in Alaska and Swift Lightning.
Plot
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty.
More details
author | James Oliver Curwood |
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contentLocation | Alaska |
director | B. Reeves Eason |
editor | Howard O'Neill |
genre | action adventure |
keywords | bear cub dog sled follow game warden gather kill lightning melt migrate talk than the trap |
musicBy | Alberto Colombo |
producer | Armand Schaefer Republic Pictures |
productionCompany | Republic Pictures |
publisher | Republic Pictures |
theme | northern |