Comments on: North to Alaska

By: Tommy D. Wright

Tommy D. Wright — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:55:43 +0000

I got this videotape when I was preparing for a 5-week RV trip to

Alaska with my 13- and 16-year-old Granddaughters. It was a bit

older, of course, than the contemporary movies they are used to, but for

the purpose they very much enjoyed it. I almost never got them to stop

serenading me with Johnny Horton’s song of the same title.

By: Jacquelyn K. Cook

Jacquelyn K. Cook — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:05:38 +0000

John Wayne had a knack for making movies that were just fun to watch. This is one of them.

By: P. Blackwell

P. Blackwell — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:42:18 +0000

One of my favorite John Wayne movies. Shows him in ways his other more serious movies don’t. A definite for the John Wayne collector!

By: Jeffrey R. Schoner

Jeffrey R. Schoner — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:47:48 +0000

I love John Wayne and Stewart Granger

and they are playing wonderful in this

adventure movie, going to Alaska.

By: Cookie's mom

Cookie's mom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:38:51 +0000

I bought the DVD based on all the positive reviews, and I think prospective buyers should be warned that not everyone finds this a 5-star movie. My husband and I, who love old movies, hated it. My teenagers just found it completely uninteresting. It was apparently made about the time Alaska became a state, although it deals with an earlier time period, and the movie has not aged well. The story was uninteresting, the direction was uneven, the comedy (mostly bar fights) felt forced and awkward. Stewart Granger did not seem to know what he was doing or why his character was there. Fabian’s acting was unmemorable and we felt Capucine was miscast. We got bored and spent half the movie pointing out to each other how little the sandy beaches and desert terrain looked anything like Alaska (it was obviously shot in southern California). I gave it two stars because I was able to sit through the entire thing, but I spent most of it asking myself “why? Why am I wasting my time like this?”