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Red Snow (1952 film)

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Red Snow
Directed byBoris Petroff
Harry S. Franklin
Screenplay byTom Hubbard
Orville H. Hampton
Based onRobert Peters
(based on a story)
Produced byBoris Petroff
StarringGuy Madison
Ray Mala
Carole Mathews
Gloria Saunders
Robert Peyton
Narrated byWilliam Shaw
CinematographyPaul Ivano
Edited byMerrill G. White
Music byAlex Alexander
June Starr
Production
company
All American Film Corporation
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 7, 1952 (1952-07-07)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Red Snow is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Boris Petroff and Harry S. Franklin and starring Guy Madison, Mala, Carole Mathews, Gloria Saunders and Lee Frederick. The film's action takes place in Alaska. It was part of a string of anti-communist films made around this time.[1]

Plot

Lieutenant Johnson, a U.S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a few secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.

Cast

  • Guy Madison as Lt. Phil Johnson
  • Mala as Sgt. Koovuk (as Ray Mala)
  • Carole Mathews as Lt. Jane (as Carole Matthews)
  • Gloria Saunders as Alak
  • Lee Frederick as Major Bennett (as Robert Peyton)
  • John Bryant as Enemy Pilot Alex
  • Richard Vath as Maj. Elia
  • Philip Ahn as Tuglu, the spy (as Phillip Ahn)
  • Tony Benroy as Cpl. Savick
  • Gordon Barnes as Capt. Mack MacLoflin
  • John Bleifer as Commissar Volgan
  • Gene Roth as Colonel Duboff
  • Muriel Maddox as Nurse Ruth
  • Robert Bice as Chief Nanu
  • Renny McEvoy as Sgt. Spike Koops
  • Bert Arnold as Riggs
  • Richard Emory as Lt. Stone
  • Dick Pinner as Long (as Richard Pinner)
  • George Pembroke as Maj. Slavin
  • Robert Carson as Debriefing General
  • William Fletcher as Kresnick
  • Richard Barron as Russian Officer

See also

References

  1. ^ Gianos p.155

Bibliography

  • Phillip L. Gianos. Politics and Politicians in American Film. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.


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