Alaska

Synopsis

Feature film about a turn-of-the-century frontier gold mining town. According to the entry in Lanier (op cit) ‘in a performance described as Barrymore-esque, Reagan performs Othello for a dog, references Julius Caesar, and recites Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to be’ soliloquy as he lay dying from smoke inhalation’.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of release

1944

Duration

76 mins

Availability

No archive copy or distributor found (3/2007).

Credits

Director

George Archainbaud

Producer

Lindsley Parsons

Cinematographer

Archie Stout; Mack Stengler

Screenplay

B. Harrison Orkow; George Wallace Sayre; Malcolm Stuart Boylan

Art Direction

E.R. Hickson

Cast

John Carradine	Reagan
Kent Taylor	Gary Corbett

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

Based on Jack London’s novel Flush of Gold.

Reviews

Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 343, entry 1447).

Monthly Film Bulletin, no. 138, June 1945. p. 70

Production Company

Name

Monogram