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Writers:
Rex Beach (novel)
Borden Chase (writer)
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Release Date:
4 July 1952 (France) more
Plot:
Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco... more | add synopsis
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More "swagger" needed here more (10 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Gregory Peck | ... | Capt. Jonathan Clark |
 | Ann Blyth | ... | Countess Marina Selanova |
 | Anthony Quinn | ... | Portugee |
| John McIntire | ... | Deacon Greathouse |
| Carl Esmond | ... | Prince Semyon |
 | Andrea King | ... | Mamie |
| Eugenie Leontovich | ... | Anna Selanova |
| Hans Conried | ... | Eustace, Hotel Clerk |
 | Rhys Williams | ... | Eben Cleggett |
| Sig Ruman | ... | General Ivan Vorashilov |
| Gregory Gaye | ... | Colonel Paul Shushaldin (as Gregory Gay) |
| Bill Radovich | ... | Ogeechuk |
| Bryan Forbes | ... | William Cleggett |
| Henry Kulky | ... | Peter, Russian Servant |
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104 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:16 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15
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Jonathan Clark:
...As for your countess Solaniva, you can tell the 'ol wench she can swim to Alaska for all I care.
Deacon Greathouse:
Be sure to tell her to take the inland passage, we don't want her to scare the seals.
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While this movie aspires to be one of those brawling, lusty, two-fisted adventures, it never quite takes off. Part of the problem lies in the miscasting of Gregory Peck. He's fine in quiet, thoughtful roles but lacks the swaggering pizzazz needed to bring off this part. Burt Lancaster or even Kirk Douglas would have been a better choice.
The rest of the production is good-looking and offers a mild degree of entertainment but it all seems a bit too mild, a bit too limited.
Typical of the movie's lack of flair is the scene in which Peck is flogged. Aha, you think -- beefcake and blood! But rather than ripping off his shirt, Peck's flogger merely tears open its back, and after seven lashes, the only marks visible on Peck are a few discreet red lines which might have been drawn on him with the sharpened tip of a lipstick. And during the flogging, Peck never winces nor groans but simply stands stoicly as if he's mentally going over that evening's dinner menu. He should have taken how-to-be-whipped lessons from Alan Ladd. Now, there's an actor who really knew how to writhe!