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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (DVD MOVIE) EAN: 0024543242147 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 06, 2006 Running Time: 120 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: May 23, 1973 Sales Rank: 5742 MPN: 2234214
Description: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.
Amazon.com: Emperor of the North, a vivid Depression-era drama, opens with a friendly, down-home song that doesn't prepare the audience for what follows: The brutal killing of a train-hopping bum at the hands of a cruel conductor named Shack (Ernest Borgnine, Marty, The Poseidon Adventure). A hobo called A-No. 1 (Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou, The Big Heat) rises to the challenge of catching a ride on Shack's train--but his heels are dogged by a tenderfoot (Keith Carradine, Deadwood, Nashville), whose inexperience may get them both killed. Director Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen, Kiss Me Deadly) has a sure feel for male behavior driven by pride, boredom, and desperation. The swagger gets a little overblown at times, but more often Emperor of the North has a gritty realism, peppered with flashes of sardonic humor and surprising compassion. Aldrich has a gift for a loose yet always watchable story, filled with engaging bit parts and offbeat incidents that flesh out the world and make the main storyline all the more compelling. Marvin and Borgnine--craggy-faced character actors deluxe--are in excellent form, but Carradine steals the movie with his bitter, callow arrogance. (Originally titled Emperor of the North Pole, a bit of hobo lingo.) --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - No Planes, Just Trains and Action
This is a great movie about an era of American history largely forgotten today. Hobos and Hoovervilles were a fact of our nation's history, one that not many of us remember. Consequently, we forget how ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome Movie
What more can be said besides this is an awesome movie. Two great stars, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin together in one of their best perfomances. I enjoy watching this movie over and over again.
Rating: - Railroad fans rejoice!
This film, though not a universally classic movie, is for many fans of railroad lore a classic indeed. I won't go into exhaustive detail about the movie because if you're considering it, you probably know ... Read More
Rating: - THIS MASTERPIECE DESERVES TO BE REMEMBERED
Emperor of the North is one of those movies that when one see it, one can't help, but wonder why no one hardly knows of it? Powerful acting, by powerful actors, and yet it's, as if, this movie doesn't even ... Read More
Rating: - The Emperor Of The North
If you like the oldies, you will like this movie. It is a drama centered in the days when indigent men traveled the rail lines across the states. Ernie Borgnine plays his usual bad guy and Lee Marvin is the ... Read More
- No Planes, Just Trains and Action
- Awesome Movie