Emperor of the North
original film poster
Directed by	Robert Aldrich
Produced by	Kenneth Hyman
Written by	Christopher Knopf
Starring	Lee Marvin Ernest Borgnine Keith Carradine
Music by	Frank De Vol
Cinematography	Joseph F. Biroc
Editing by	Michael Luciano
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	1973
Running time	118 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American movie starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine. The original title of the movie was Emperor of the North Pole. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, and is better known under the latter name. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen. ... Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917[1][2] ) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. ... Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor and Academy Award-winning songwriter born into a family of actors. ... Frank De Vol (September 20, 1911 - October 27, 1999) was an American composer of film and television music. ... Joseph F. Biroc (February 12, 1903-September 7, 1996) was a highly successful film and television cinematographer. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... // Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917[1][2] ) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. ... Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor and Academy Award-winning songwriter born into a family of actors. ...

The movie is about hobos during the 1930s and is set in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is based, in part, on the books The Road by Jack London and From Coast to Coast with Jack London by "A-No.-1" (the pen-name of Leon Ray Livingston), although both of those books predate the 1930s by a few decades. Carradine's character, Cigaret, uses the same moniker that Jack London used on the road, and like London, is portrayed as a young traveling companion to the older A-No.-1 (played by Marvin), but that is otherwise where the similarity between Carradine's character and Jack London ends, as Cigaret is portrayed in the film as immature, loud-mouthed, and none too bright. The title is a reference to a joke among hobos during the Great Depression that the world's best hobo was "Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation since somebody ruling over the North Pole would be ruling over a wasteland. A hobo was a member of a distinctive sub-culture of homeless, travelling workers in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the... Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 9th  - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 2. ... Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916),[1][2][3] was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. ... Leon Ray Livingston was one of the most famous hoboes of all time, travelling under the name A No. ... The Great Depression started after October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. ... For other uses, see North Pole (disambiguation). ...

Synopsis

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Ernest Borgnine plays the infamous Shack, a sadistic railroad conductor who takes it upon himself to forcibly remove all hobos from his train, local No. 19. As the movie opens, he has just thrown a hobo off his train to his death. Another hobo, A-No.1 (Lee Marvin), manages to hop his train with the younger, less-experienced Cigaret (Keith Carradine) not far behind. At the next stop, A-No.1 evades Shack and escapes into the hobo jungle, but Cigaret is caught. Shack threatens to kill Cigaret but is distracted when he gets the message that A-No.1 (who he knows by reputation) has announced that he will be the first hobo to ride Shack's train all the way to Portland. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... A train Conductor // The Conductor is the railway employee charged with the management of a freight, passenger, or various other types of train, and is also the direct supervisor of the trains Train Crew (brakeman, flagman, ticket collector, assistant conductor, on board service personnel). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter Area  - City 376. ...

The other hobos agree that the first hobo who can successfully ride Shack's train will have earned the title "Emperor of the North Pole." The railroad workers place bets whether A-No.-1 can do it, and they spread the news far and wide over the telegraph, as Shack is widely known and disliked among other railroad workers. Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ...

Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in a scene from the climactic ending of Emperor of the North Pole.

The rest of the film has A-No.1 riding the train trying to stay clear of Shack, pulling a series of pranks with the help of other hobos, such as running Shack's train into a siding, and trying to rid himself of the company of Cigaret, who is tagging along on the same train and making a general pest of himself. Shack succeeds in ejecting the two from his train once, but the two board a fast passenger train which overtakes Shack's train, and ride it to Salem, Oregon. Image File history File links Emperor_climactic_scene. ... Image File history File links Emperor_climactic_scene. ... Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917[1][2] ) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. ... College pranks Practical jokes, such as Cow tipping (which is in actuality a myth) April Fools Day pranks (see examples in April 1, 2002) Candid Camera pranks Student Liberation Front pranks World Wide Web pranks Related topics Myth Joke Humour This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Nickname: The Cherry City Location in the state of Oregon Coordinates: County Marion County, Polk County Founded 1842 Government  - Mayor Janet Taylor Area  - City 120. ...

In Salem they have several farcical encounters, including one with a policeman (Simon Oakland) who chases the two into the Salem hobo jungle, accusing them of stealing a turkey, and with a Holiness minister holding an outdoor baptism service. They reboard Shack's train after it arrives in Salem. The film ends with a climactic fight. When A-No.1 has the defeated Shack at his mercy, instead of killing him, he just throws him off the train. He also tosses Cigaret off, for not helping and then bragging about how "they" beat Shack. For the band, see The Police. ... Simon Oakland (28 August 1915 - 29 August 1983) began his career as a violinist (a vocation he would enjoy his entire career as an actor), and began acting in the late 1940s. ... The Holiness movement is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature of man can be cleansed through faith and by the power of the Holy Spirit if one has had his sins forgiven through faith in Jesus. ... Baptism in early Christian art. ...

Trivia

• The part of "hogger" was veteran actor Malcolm Atterbury's final film role. His father was once president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
• No soundtrack album was ever produced; however the theme ballad, A Man and a Train written by Frank De Vol with lyrics by Hal David and sung by Marty Robbins, appears on his album All-Time Greatest Hits (Catalog# 77425), and the CD The Best of Marty Robbins released by Curb Records in January 2006, both including a second verse not used in the film.

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Filming location

The film was shot in and around the city of Cottage Grove, Oregon along the right-of-way of the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway (OP&E).^[1] Willis Kyle, President of the OP&E in 1972, allowed the film company unlimited access to make the film.^{[citation needed]} Oregon, Pacific and Eastern's rolling stock, including two steam locomotives (one of these being #19, a type 2-8-2 Mikado), appear in the film.^[1] Also featured in the film is the Dorena Reservoir, located about 10 miles east of Cottage Grove,^[2] and OP&E's railyard in downtown Cottage Grove. Nickname: Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon Map Political Statistics Incorporated 1887 County Lane County Mayor Gary Williams Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 8. ... The Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway (AAR reporting marks OPE) is a short line railroad that began in 1904 as the Oregon and Southeastern Railroad (O&SE). ... Rolling Stock banner Rolling Stock was a newspaper of ideas and a chronicle of the 1980s published in Boulder, Colorado by Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn. ... Great Western Railway No. ... PRR 520, on display at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, in 1993. ...

DVD version

The film was released in North America on DVD on June 5, 2006 under the title Emperor of the North. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Oregon, Pacific & Eastern Railway. Abandoned Railroads of the Pacific Northwest. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
2. ^ Row River Trail: Harms Park. City of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.

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External links

• Emperor of the North Pole at the IMDB