A very fine adventures movie with a great Stewart Granger ,an actor so nice that even when he tries to become nasty we don't believe him.The fifties were his heyday,with such exciting works as "Moonfleet" "the prisoner of Zenda" or "the last hunt".
"The wild north" shows Granger at the top of his game: with a mediocre actor,the character would have been trite.Wendell Corey's portrayal seems monotonous by comparison.Granger turns what could have been another cop-and-prisoner movie into an endearing absorbing story: it may have inspired Nicholas Ray for some of the scenes between Anthony Quinn and Peter O'Toole in "the savage innocents" .
In the wild north, White is everywhere.This is white madness,says Jules Vincent ,a white madness which kills the minister and drives the constable crazy.Jules shows himself a real shrink who uses a real shock therapy: Pedley lost his reason in the snow,he recovers it in the white swirls of the river.
Cyd Charisse is a dancer extraordinaire but as an Indian she is...well...
Andrew Marton shows much tenderness in the scenes with the cat or when he films a boy's smile when he gets a chocolate bar.
"The wild north" shows Granger at the top of his game: with a mediocre actor,the character would have been trite.Wendell Corey's portrayal seems monotonous by comparison.Granger turns what could have been another cop-and-prisoner movie into an endearing absorbing story: it may have inspired Nicholas Ray for some of the scenes between Anthony Quinn and Peter O'Toole in "the savage innocents" .
In the wild north, White is everywhere.This is white madness,says Jules Vincent ,a white madness which kills the minister and drives the constable crazy.Jules shows himself a real shrink who uses a real shock therapy: Pedley lost his reason in the snow,he recovers it in the white swirls of the river.
Cyd Charisse is a dancer extraordinaire but as an Indian she is...well...
Andrew Marton shows much tenderness in the scenes with the cat or when he films a boy's smile when he gets a chocolate bar.