''Red Snow'' is a 1952 American

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directed by Boris Petroff and Harry S. Franklin and starring

Guy Madison Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for having played Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series ''The Adventures of Wild Bill ...

, Mala,

Carole Mathews Carole Mathews (born Jean Deifel, also credited as Jeanne Francis; September 13, 1920 – November 6, 2014) was an American film and television actress. Early years Born in Montgomery, Illinois, near Chicago, Mathews lived with her grandmoth ...

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and Lee Frederick. The film's action takes place in

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. It was part of a string of

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films made around this time.Gianos p.155

Plot

Lieutenant Johnson, a U.S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a few secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.

Cast

as Lt. Phil Johnson * Mala as Sgt. Koovuk (as Ray Mala) *

as Lt. Jane (as Carole Matthews) *

as Alak * Lee Frederick as Major Bennett (as Robert Peyton) * John Bryant as Enemy Pilot Alex * Richard Vath as Maj. Elia *

Philip Ahn Philip Ahn (; March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was an American actor and activist of Korean descent. With over 180 film and television credits between 1935 and 1978, he was one of the most recognizable and prolific Asian-American char ...

as Tuglu, the spy (as Phillip Ahn) * Tony Benroy as Cpl. Savick * Gordon Barnes as Capt. Mack MacLoflin *

John Bleifer John Melvin Bleifer (July 26, 1901 – January 24, 1992) was an American actor whose career began at the end of the silent film era, and lasted through the mid-1980s. He appeared in feature films and film serials, and in a number of televis ...

as Commissar Volgan *

Gene Roth Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976), known professionally as Gene Stutenroth or Gene Roth, was an American film actor and former theater manager. He appeared in more than 250 films over three decades. Early ...

as Colonel Duboff * Muriel Maddox as Nurse Ruth *

Robert Bice Robert Bice (March 14, 1914 – January 8, 1968) was an American television and film actor. Biography Bice was born on March 14, 1914, in Dallas, Texas. He died on January 8, 1968, in Los Angeles, California. Bice was buried in Eternal Vall ...

as Chief Nanu * Renny McEvoy as Sgt. Spike Koops * Bert Arnold as Riggs *

Richard Emory Richard Emory (January 27, 1919 – February 15, 1994) was an American actor born in Santa Barbara, California. After serving in the military as a marine in World War II, he started a career as an actor. He achieved recognition in movies of th ...

as Lt. Stone * Dick Pinner as Long (as Richard Pinner) * George Pembroke as Maj. Slavin * Robert Carson as Debriefing General * William Fletcher as Kresnick * Richard Barron as Russian Officer

References

Bibliography

* Phillip L. Gianos. ''Politics and Politicians in American Film''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

External links

* 1952 films 1950s action adventure films 1950s action thriller films Columbia Pictures films Films set in Alaska American action adventure films American action thriller films American black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films English-language action adventure films English-language action thriller films {{action-thriller-film-stub

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