North of Hudson Bay

Name: North of Hudson Bay
Director: John Ford
Genre: Action, Western
Released: 1923
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette

1923 Action Western 50 minutes Directed by John Ford

About North of Hudson Bay

Peter Dane is killed at a Hudson's Bay post. His brother Michael (Tom Mix) comes in on the steamboat, goes into the water after Estelle McDonald's hat, and falls for her (Kathleen Key). Suspected of the murder, he is sent into the bush with Angus McKenzie, the man already accused. Estelle, running from a suitor and his men, joins them. They fight their way out and take a canoe through the rapids.

Cast & crew

More about North of Hudson Bay

John Ford directed. Jules Furthman wrote it. Fox released it on 18 November 1923. In Britain it was called North of the Yukon.

Themes

A brother blamed for a murder
Flight into the bush
A canoe escape
Hudson's Bay
Tom Mix
murder charge
rapids
trading post

Background

A 1923 Fox outdoor picture for Tom Mix, set at a Hudson's Bay post and released the same year in Britain under another title.

Preservation

Incomplete. About 40 minutes of footage is known, in prints held by archives in the United States and Europe. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Daniel B. Clark is the credited cinematographer.
Eugene Pallette plays Peter Dane. Frank Campeau plays Cameron McDonald. Will Walling plays Angus McKenzie. Frank Leigh plays Jeffrey Clough. Fred Kohler plays Armand LeMoir. Jennie Lee plays Dane's mother.
Some 40 minutes of the 50-minute release survive in American and European archives.