''Neath Canadian Skies'' is a 1946 American
Northern
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Geography
* North
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film about
Mounties
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.
It was directed by
B. Reeves Eason from a story by
James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best selle ...
. Filming took place in June 1946 through Golden Gate Pictures, in a studio that used to be a ping pong parlor.
The same team also made ''
North of the Border'' (1946).
Cast
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Russell Hayden
Russell "Lucky" Hayden (born Hayden Michael "Pate" Lucid; June 12, 1912 – June 9, 1981) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal as Lucky Jenkins in Paramount's popular Hopalong Cassidy film series.
Early ...
as Tim Ransom, also known as Joe Reed
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Inez Cooper
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as Linda Elliot
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Douglas Fowley
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as Ned Thompson
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Cliff Nazarro
Clifford Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961 ) was an American double-talk comedian, vocalist, and actor of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s who appeared in films such as ''You'll Never Get Rich'' (1941) as Swivel Tongue with Fred Asta ...
as Wilbur Higgins
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I. Stanford Jolley as Bill Haley
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Jack Mulhall
John Joseph Francis Mulhall (October 7, 1887 – June 1, 1979) was an American film actor beginning in the silent film era who successfully transitioned to sound films, appearing in over 430 films in a career spanning 50 years.
Early years
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as Captain Sharon
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Kermit Maynard
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Early years
Born in Vevay, Indiana, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Maynard and a lookalike ...
as Stony Carter
References
External links
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Neath Canadian Skies''at the
British Film Institute
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction
1946 films
American Western (genre) films
1946 Western (genre) films
1940s English-language films
Lippert Pictures films
Films directed by B. Reeves Eason
American black-and-white films
Northern (genre) films
Films based on works by James Oliver Curwood
1940s American films
English-language Western (genre) films
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