Tundra (1936 film)

Tundra
Directed by	Norman Dawn
Written by	Charles F. Royal Norton S. Parker Norman Dawn
Produced by	Bennett Cohen Norman Dawn Ashton Dearholt George W. Stout
Starring	Merrill McCormick Frank Baker Earl Dwire
Cinematography	Edward A. Kull Jacob Kull Norman Dawn
Edited by	Thomas Neff Walter Thompson
Music by	Arthur Kay Hugo Riesenfeld
Production company	Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures
Distributed by	Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures
Release date	August 25, 1936 (1936-08-25)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tundra is a 1936 American drama film directed by Norman Dawn and featuring Merrill McCormick, Frank Baker and Earl Dwire.^[1] Originally the film was backed by Universal Pictures, but it was dropped when Carl Laemmle lost control of the studio. Production and distribution was then taken over by the independent Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures. Seven months of location shooting took place in Alaska. The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles Clague. Footage from the film was later re-used for the 1949 RKO release Arctic Fury.^[2]

Plot

Cast

• Alfred Delcambre as Dr. Jason Barlow
• Merrill McCormick as Mack - The Trapper
• Jack Santos as Kuyuk - Eskimo from Noonak
• Frank Baker as White Man from Noonak
• Earl Dwire as Trading Post Keeper
• Wally Howes as Trapper
• Elsie Duran as Sayuk's Mother
• Bertha Maldanado as Sayuk - Eskimo Child
• Frazer Acosta as Umnak - Sayuk's Father

References

1. Bouse, Derek (2011) [2000]. Wildlife Films. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0812217285.
2. Gevinson, Alan. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press, 1997. p. 51. ISBN 9780520209640.

External links

• Tundra at IMDb