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The North Star
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Sean McLennon
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| Christopher Lambert | ... |
Hudson Saanteek
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Sarah
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Reno
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Morten Faldaas | ... |
Smiley
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Jacques François | ... |
Colonel Henry Johnson
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Mary M. Walker | ... |
Haina
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Renny Hoalona Loren | ... |
Cheelik
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Frank Salsedo | ... |
Nakki
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Don Backhurst | ... |
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Roddy 'Two Eagle' Randall | ... |
Native American
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Reidar Sørensen | ... |
Bjorn Svenson
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Pedea Torget | ... |
Jesper
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Hilde Grythe | ... |
Hannah
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John Cassady | ... |
Jim Hanson
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Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800's. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
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Where land is power and revenge is obsession.Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
25 October 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tashunga See more »Box Office
Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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North Star is unique for a European western in that it's set in Alaska, far from the sun baked deserts of the southwest. Everything else is disappointingly typical.
Caan plays a black-hearted land baron in 1899 Alaska who's systematically murdered and cheated his way into being the owner of the largest goldmines in the area. He tries to kill Lambert, a half Eskimo who had the good sense to file a claim on his people's sacred (and gold rich) cave.
It isn't boring but a chase movie where Christopher Lambert squares off against James Caan and Burt Young in a savage frontier battle for survival should have generated more heat than this, especially being that this is co-written by Sergio Donati, who also helped pen For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon A Time In The West!
It's pretty straight forward and unpretentious but it made me wish it were more compelling. The characters were pretty cardboard, though Caan seems to be having some fun swinging back and forth between greedy and treacherous to insane and out of control.
Also, everyone appears to be under-dressed. This movie takes place in Nome, Alaska during a snowstorm but everyone's dressed like it's Fall.
Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson were better in Death Hunt, watch that one first!