The Emperor of North

The Emperor of North ( Emperor Off The North Pole ) is an American film carried out by Robert Aldrich in 1973.

Synopsis

October 1933, Oregon. The Grande Depression has just fallen down on the the United States, plunging million men and women in the most total misery. Vagrants survey the country in the search of an employment or a simple soup. Some try to travel illegally and free on train. More coveted is that of line 19. But the splendid engine is kept by Shack, a rough bloodthirsty man and sadist, who does not hesitate to use violence and wildly exterminates all the “trimardeurs” who dare to go up on his machine. Only a legendary vagrant, called N°1, ose to defy the conductor. Consequently, between the two men, the confrontation becomes inevitable…

Data sheet

  • Title: the Emperor Of North
  • original Title: Emperor Off The North Pole
  • Realization: Robert Aldrich
  • Scenario: Christopher Knopf, according to Jack London (not-credited)
  • Production: Stanley Hough and Kenneth Hyman
  • Production company: 20th Century Fox
  • Music: Frank De Vol
  • Photography: Joseph Biroc
  • Assembly: Michael Luciano
  • Decorations: Raphael Bretton
  • Costumes: Jack Martin Smith
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Format: Colors - 1,85 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Kind: Venture
  • Durée: 119 minutes (1h59)

Distribution

Around film

  • the film is very freely inspired by a novel of Jack London published in 1907: The Road.
  • It was turned in the area of Grove Cottage, in the Oregon, on the same railway line where Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman turned in 1927 the Mechanic of “General” the. This famous line will be dismounted in 1987.
  • the project was intended for Sam Peckinpah before returning to Robert Aldrich.
  • the film off left under the title “Emperor the North Pole” (the Emperor of the North pole) but was changed in the course of exploitation by a title which lent less to confusion.
  • This film marks the fourth collaboration between Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine after Bad Day At Black Rock of John Sturges in 1955, Violent Saturday of Richard Fleischer in 1955, The Dirty Dozen of Robert Aldrich in 1966. The two actors will find last once in 1985 in a telefilm of Andrew V. McLaglen: The Dirty Dozen, Next Mission.

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