Arctic Fury

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Dr. Thomas Barlow, one of the few doctors in the frozen Arctic region, fights to bring help to an isolated, virtually inaccessible Eskimo village in the Arctic that had been devastated by pl... Read allDr. Thomas Barlow, one of the few doctors in the frozen Arctic region, fights to bring help to an isolated, virtually inaccessible Eskimo village in the Arctic that had been devastated by plague. Based on a true story.Dr. Thomas Barlow, one of the few doctors in the frozen Arctic region, fights to bring help to an isolated, virtually inaccessible Eskimo village in the Arctic that had been devastated by plague. Based on a true story.

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Alfred Delcambre

Dr. Thomas Barlow
(archive footage)
(as Del Cambre)

Eve Miller

Martha Barlow

Gloria Petroff

Emily Barlow

Dan Riss

Director of the Thompson Institute
(as Don Riss)

Merrill McCormick

Mack - The Trapper
(archive footage)
(as Merril McCormick)

Fred Smith

Frank Baker

White Man from Noonak
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Earl Dwire

Trading Post Owner
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Wally Howe

Trapper
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Jack Santos

Half Breed
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
This film was cobbled together from the 1936 independent film "Tundra." It was originally intended as a prestige film by Carl Laemmle's Universal regime in its last days. The idea of spending seven months in Alaska was abandoned and stock footage from "Alaskan Adventures (1926"and "SOS Iceberg (1933) were incorporated. Thirteen years later original actors Delcambre and McCormick were included in some new footage with Eve Miller and Gloria Petroff under the direction of Fred R. Feitshans, and was released under the now new title, "Arctic Fury"

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Black bears do not inhabit the Colville River region of northern Alaska. They are primarily forest dwellers, and the farthest north they have ever been observed co-mingling with grizzlies and polar bears is at Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada, west of Hudson's Bay.

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Edited from Tundra (1936)

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2/10

A sad excuse for a film.

"Arctic Fury" is a sad excuse for a movie, as it is essentially made up of old extent footage tossed together. And, to make it more comprehensible, annoying and ever-present narration is used. As a result, it's a movie that mostly stinks...though some of the old footage is nice on its own.

The story begins with dull narration about how the Eskimos respond to plagues. How much of this is true is anyone's guess. Soon, a doctor volunteers to head to the town to help these people with the outbreak. However, along the way, his plane crashes and the doctor is forced to trek through the wilderness to the eskimo village.

Essentially, the film uses footage from "Tundra" (1936)...and that film used footage from "SOS Iceberg" (1933) and I am pretty sure the airplane scenes are from that earlier American-German co-production. To fill in the gaps, there is the annoying narration as well as a bit of new footage. The overall results are less than thrilling and really show you how cynical the folks at RKO were about passing this off as a new movie. How bored and annoyed audiences must have been when they watched this. The only reason I give this one a 2 is that some of the footage looks nice...1930s nice!

By the way, the annoying narrator says that the muskoxen are the most dangerous and aggressive of the mammals in the great white north. Well, this simply isn't true. I am NOT recommending you go hug one...it will most likely kill you. But the risk from them is far less than polar bears or any other bear of the region, such as Brown or Black bears. Heck, wolves are probably more dangerous as well! So please don't take what the film says as gospel!