The Alaskan

1924 film by Herbert Brenon

September 14, 1924 (1924-09-14) (NY; premiere)
September 22, 1924 (1924-09-22) (nationwide; USA)

Running time

7 reels; 6,736 feetCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Alaskan is a 1924 American silent adventure drama film based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood set in northwoods country, as his novels tend to be, in this case Alaska. The film was produced and released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Herbert Brenon. The picture stars Thomas Meighan, Estelle Taylor and an early role by Anna May Wong.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Production still. Left to right: Thomas Meighan, Estelle Taylor, Herbert Brenon, James Wong Howe

Thomas Meighan as Alan Holt
Estelle Taylor as Mary Standish
John Sainpolis as Rossland
Frank Campeau as Stampede Smith
Anna May Wong as Keok
Alphonse Ethier as John Graham
Maurice de Canonge as Tautuk (as Maurice Cannon)
Charles Ogle as Lawyer

Preservation

With no prints of The Alaskan located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

See also

List of lost films

References

^ The Alaskan at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Alaskan
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Alaskan

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Alaskan (film).

The Alaskan at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
The Alaskan public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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Films directed by Herbert Brenon

Ivanhoe (1913)
Neptune's Daughter (1914)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
The Heart of Maryland (1915)
The Clemenceau Case (1915)
The Two Orphans (1915)
Sin (1915)
The Soul of Broadway (1915)
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
War Brides (1916)
Whom the Gods Destroy (1916)
The Eternal Sin (1917)
The Lone Wolf (1917)
The Fall of the Romanoffs (1917)
Empty Pockets (1918)
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918)
Victory and Peace (1918)
Quinneys (1919)
12.10 (1919)
Beatrice (1919)
The Mysterious Princess (1920)
Little Sister (1921)
The Passion Flower (1921)
The Stronger Passion (1921)
The Sign on the Door (1921)
The Wonderful Thing (1921)
Any Wife (1922)
A Stage Romance (1922)
Shackles of Gold (1922)
Moonshine Valley (1922)
The Custard Cup (1923)
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
The Woman With Four Faces (1923)
The Spanish Dancer (1923)
Shadows of Paris (1924)
The Breaking Point (1924)
The Side Show of Life (1924)
The Alaskan (1924)
Peter Pan (1924)
The Little French Girl (1925)
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
The Song and Dance Man (1926)
Dancing Mothers (1926)
Beau Geste (1926)
The Great Gatsby (1926)
God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)
The Telephone Girl (1927)
Sorrell and Son (1927)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
The Rescue (1929)
Lummox (1930)
The Case of Sergeant Grisch (1930)
Beau Ideal (1931)
Transgression (1931)
Girl of the Rio (1932)
Wine, Women and Song (1933)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Honours Easy (1935)
Living Dangerously (1936)
Someone at the Door (1936)
The Dominant Sex (1937)
Spring Handicap (1937)
The Live Wire (1937)
Housemaster (1938)
Yellow Sands (1938)
Black Eyes (1939)
The Flying Squad (1940)

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