The Alaskan

Herbert Brenon (director)
Anna May Wong, Thomas Meighan, Estelle Taylor (starring)
James Oliver Curwood (novel)
Willis Goldbeck, Harry H. Caldwell (screenwriters)

Paris: H. Roger Viollet, Circa 1963. Reference photograph, struck circa 1934, from the 1924 film. Stamped on the verso by photographer Jacques Boyer as well as Roger Violette, who acquired Boyer's archive in 1963.

Shown are noted Irish-American director Herbert Brenon, cinematographer James Wong Howe, and an unidentified indigenous interpreter on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and the stamps of photographer Jacques Boyer and Helene Roger-Viollet on the verso.

Based on the 1923 novel by James Oliver Curwood, about an Alaskan who fights robber barons in order to preserve the wilderness. An early performance by actress Anna May Wong. Currently considered a lost film.

6.75 x 9.25 inches. About Near Fine.


[Book #166100]