''The Alaskan'' is a 1924 American
silent adventure
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
based on a novel by
James Oliver Curwood set in northwoods country, as his novels tend to be, in this case Alaska. The film was produced and released by
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
and directed by
Herbert Brenon. The picture stars
Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he comm ...
,
Estelle Taylor and an early role by
Anna May Wong
Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain intern ...
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Cast
![The Alaskan (1924) 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/The_Alaskan_%281924%29_1.jpg)
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Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he comm ...
as Alan Holt
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Estelle Taylor as Mary Standish
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John Sainpolis as Rossland
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Frank Campeau as Stampede Smith
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Anna May Wong
Wong Liu Tsong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain intern ...
as Keok
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Alphonse Ethier
Alphonse Ethier (December 10, 1874 – January 4, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1910 and 1939. His first name was sometimes spelled Alphonz.
Ethier acted on stage before he began making films wi ...
as John Graham
* Maurice de Canonge as Tautuk (as Maurice Cannon)
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Charles Ogle as Lawyer
Preservation
With no prints of ''The Alaskan'' located in any film archives,
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Alaskan''
/ref> it is a lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
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See also
*List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
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1924 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Herbert Brenon
Films set in Alaska
Lost American films
1920s adventure drama films
American adventure drama films
American black-and-white films
Paramount Pictures films
Northern (genre) films
1924 lost films
Lost adventure drama films
1924 drama films
Films based on novels by James Oliver Curwood
1920s American films
Silent American drama films
Silent adventure drama films
1920s English-language films
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