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Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
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23 May 1973 (USA)
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Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine meet in the fight of the century. more
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It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people...
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Based on Jack London story
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lee Marvin | ... | A No. 1 | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Shack | |
| Keith Carradine | ... | Cigaret | |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Cracker | |
| Malcolm Atterbury | ... | Hogger | |
| Simon Oakland | ... | Policeman | |
| Harry Caesar | ... | Coaly | |
| Hal Baylor | ... | Yardman's Helper | |
| Matt Clark | ... | Yardlet | |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Gray Cat (as Elisha Cook) | |
| Joe Di Reda | ... | Dinger (as Joe di Reda) | |
| Liam Dunn | ... | Smile | |
| Diane Dye | ... | Girl in Water | |
| Robert Foulk | ... | Conductor | |
| James Goodwin | ... | Fakir |
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Emperor of the North (USA) (reissue title)
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118 min | 116 min (FMC Library Print)
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Finland:K-16 (cut) (1973) |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1987) |
USA:TV-PG |
West Germany:16 (f) |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (1973) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG |
Netherlands:16
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Final film of Malcolm Atterbury.
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Anachronisms: Among the freight cars seen in the train yard is a plug-door boxcar. These were not invented until the 1960s.
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Referenced in Paranoid Park (2007)
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A Man and a Train
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The credits of Aldrich's Emperor of the North don't mention the fact that it is an adaptation of Jack London's story 'The Road'.
The Road is a long short story/short novel, based on London's own experiences as a young man, riding the rails as a hobo. Most importantly, the central conflict between Borgnine's Shack and Marvin's A Number One, and the methods both use to overcome their enemy are very closely based on the Jack London story, in which a group of hobo's set out to ride the train on which a particularly brutal shack, or railway guard works.