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
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Alaska". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68040 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)