Emperor of the North Pole

Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 movie starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.

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1973 - Movie - Lee Marvin - Ernest Borgnine - Keith Carradine

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The original title of the movie was Emperor of the North Pole. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, and is better known under the latter name.

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The movie is about hobos during the 1930s and is set in Oregon. It is based, in part, on the books The Road by Jack London and From Coast to Coast with Jack London by "A-No-1", although both of those books predate the 1930s by a few decades. Carradine's character uses the same monicker that Jack London used on the road, Cigaret, and like London is portrayed as a young traveling companion to the older A-No-1 (played by Marvin), but that is otherwise where the similarity between Carradine's character and Jack London ends, as Cigaret is portrayed in the film as immature, loud-mouthed, and none too bright.

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Hobos - 1930s - Oregon - Jack London

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The title is a reference to a joke among hobos during the Great Depression that the world's best hobo was "Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation since somebody ruling over the North Pole would be ruling over a wasteland.

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Great Depression - North Pole

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