A salty sea captain, a beautiful Russian countess, and the love that would span an ocean.
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Gregory PeckCaptain Jonathan Clark
- Ann BlythCountess Marina Selanova
- Anthony QuinnPortugee
- John McIntireDeacon Greathouse
- Carl EsmondPrince Semyon
- Sig RumanGeneral Ivan Vorashilov
- Andrea KingMamie
- Eugenie LeontovichAnna Selanova
- Bill RadovitchOgeechuk
- Rhys WilliamsEben Cleggett
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- Raoul WalshDirector
- Borden ChaseScreenplay
- Rex BeachNovel
- Russell MettyDirector of Photography
- Frank GrossEditor
- Aaron RosenbergProducer
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