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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 5544
Released: May 20, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this sprawling, brawling comedy-adventure set in the rowdy heydey of the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) finally hit the mother lode, George asks Sam to go to Seattle and fetch his sweetheart, Jennie, but she's already married someone else. Heartbroken for his buddy's sake, Sam visits a saloon, meets dancer (Capucine) and invites her back to Nome as Jennie's replacement - the plan goes perfectly until Sam falls in love with her too!
Description of North to Alaska:
Even people habitually hostile to John Wayne movies tend to cast an indulgent eye on this rumbustious comedy-Western--partly because the Alaska gold rush setting seems more exotic than, say, Texas or Arizona, and because there are no Indians to discriminate against and no macho gunplay to fret about. As for John Wayne as all-purpose icon of male chauvinism, Big Sam McCord (the Duke) spends much of North to Alaska in a state of growing discombobulation because he has fallen in love with, and is thoroughly flummoxed by, "Angel" (Capucine), the woman he's brought back from Seattle to marry his heartsick partner George (Stewart Granger). Henry Hathaway directs in a broader vein than usual, but he hits pay dirt. Even Fabian, the latest pop music idol to be dragooned into supporting the elder roughnecks, is fun, and Ernie Kovacs is droll casting as chief "villain." --Richard T. Jameson
North to Alaska Reviews:
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2009-08-15 - The Quiet Man [VHS]
This has a funny and fun fight. Like the fight in Quiet Man.
gold
2009-05-29 - alaskain gold rush john wayne style. one of his funniest movies. Plenty of gun and fist fights for the action lovers and romance for the ladies.
North to Alaska
2009-05-11 - North to Alaska is a great John Wayne film. Lots of beautiful scenery, lots of sparks between Wayne and the beautiful Capucine, a believeable storyline. My teanagers will sit and watch this one with me. I especially love the loggers party scene where Wayne climbs a huge pole. Fascinating how loggers go up and down trees so easily. Love it!!!
NORTH TO ALASKA VHS
2009-04-15 - My Mother wanted this and I watched before handing it on. Wow, I didn't remember it being so funny. And when John Wayne slid under the horse I don't think it was in the script. I think even he was surprised. It's worth watching.
A Gold Prospecter Strikes it Rich--Twice
2009-03-29 - Johnny Horton's song, NORTH TO ALASKA, introduces this flick. Sam McCord (John Wayne) and his two partners find gold and strike it rich. McCord is lavish giving his money to others. He is on top of the world, and everybody seems to be his friend. This comedy is full of romantic dialogue, fistfights, and beautiful scenes of nature. The men, being former loggers, compete in a tree-trunk climbing contest.
A saloon girl, Capucine is, in time, romantically pursued by all three men in the partnership--either seriously or in order to make the others jealous. They each get silly trying to woo her, especially the 17 year-old. For her part, she has no plans to settle down, and wants to return to Seattle and to her former life. But then things start to happen. An interloper attempts to make a counterclaim to the three-partners' gold mine, and a local judge must make a decision. She begins to think things over and...
