A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
Toughie the Bear
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Roughie the Bear
- Roughie
- (as Roughie)
Winkey the Talking Raven
- Winkey
- (as Winkey)
Sherry Hall
- Ed
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Lono
- Topek
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFinal film of Billy Dooley. NOTE: He died of a heart attack a few months after it was released.
- ConnectionsEdited into Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953)
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A Man and Woman Fighting for Survival in the Frozen Alaskan Frontier
This film begins with a young writer by the name of "Jean Williams" (Beverly Roberts) working on a novel about the Alaskan wilderness while living with an Eskimo tribe in a remote village. Although she is quite content with her present circumstances, one troubling bit of concern involves a pack of wild dogs and wolves which are terrorizing the area and killing off all of the reindeer which the Eskimos rely on for their food. So much so that they all decide to leave their village one morning in search of better hunting grounds--leaving her all alone in her cabin. And because of this, the wild dogs quickly begin to advance toward the village in search of whatever they can find. It's at this time that a fur trapper named "Gaston Rogers" (Richard Arlen) appears and offers to help her evacuate with him on his dog sled. To that effect, although she doesn't particularly like Gaston, she agrees to go with him. Making things more difficult, however, is the fact that several other animals also follow them--with the worst one being a wild dog named Swift Lightning which has a reputation for being excessively vicious. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, although some people might assume this film is a cheap knockoff of the more popular "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London, the fact of the matter is that it is based primarily on another novel titled "Swift Lightning-A Story of Wildlife Adventure in the Frozen North" by James Oliver Curwood. So, they are completely different in that respect. Even so, it does feature a number of certain similarities due in large part to the overall location. That being said, although I don't consider this film to be bad necessarily, if I had I had a choice to watch this movie or the 1935 version of "The Call of the Wild", I think I would take the latter since it had better cinematography and acting. But that's just me. In any case, it passed the time fairly well, and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
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- Uriah43
- Mar 31, 2024
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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