"Aventures dans le Grand Nord"
Les légendes du Grand Nord (1995)

Director:

René Manzor

Writers:

Robert Geoffrion (writer)
Jack London (story)

TV Series:

"Aventures dans le Grand Nord" (1994)

Original Air Date:

25 March 1995

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Georges Corraface	...	Charles Bel-Air
Randy Quaid	...	Whip
Macha Grenon	...	Laura Flemming
Sandrine Holt	...	Kanata
Serge Houde	...	McTavish
John Dunn-Hill	...	O'Malley
Billy Merasty	...	Mawaki
Jon Baggaley	...	Nigel Plinkers
Aubert Pallascio	...	Paul Bel-Air
Linda Smith	...	Annabelle
Esther Mayo	...	Indian Woman #1
Sharon Thompson	...	Indian Woman #2
Flint Eagle	...	Warrior #1
Jason Cavalier	...	Warrior #2
Stéphane Lefebvre	...	Warrior #3 (as Stephanie Lefebvre)

MPAA:

Rated PG for adventure violence and some language.

Runtime:

France:90 min | USA:96 min

Country:

Canada | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Astralcolor)

Certification:

USA:PG

Company:

Cinévidéo Plus

Pretty scenery, pretty boring movie......

Randy Quaid struggles to keep this beautifully photographed, but ultimately pointless, adventure movie interesting. The premise is a good one, a lost lake of gold, and an old coot with a diary and a map searching for it. Various shady characters are all interested in just one thing, finding the gold. Unfortunately "Legends of the North" has a choppy and badly undeveloped script which sinks the entire movie. Supposedly based on a story by Jack London, you would expect better. Characters drop in and out with little development. Certain parts of the script seem based on nothing more than lame coincidences. A love story appears out of nowhere, and then vanishes in another contrived dead end. 95 minutes of nice landscape, with characters wandering about in the snow, does not make a movie. A disappointment. - MERK