Edna Ferber insanity about Alaska during the first half of the twentieth century. Richard Burton, extremely uncomfortable sans his Welsh accent, opens a cannery with salmon fisherman Robert Ryan. Silliness ensues. A high gloss soap opera in the guise of a historical epic directed by Vincent Sherman. Though released in 1960, it's so old-fashioned it's difficult believe this melodrama wasn't made in the 1930s. Sherman, a marginally talented studio director with no talent for anything that should be done on a grand scale, brings very little to this type of film. The supporting cast is far more colorful than any of the studio-bound scenery. Carolyn Jones is terrific as the woman caught between Burton and Ryan. Jim Backus, Ray Danton and Martha Hyer are in it too.
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