Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Still photographs juxtapose Dawson City today against its bustling height in the gold rush.
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Pierre Berton as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolf Koenig Director
Canada 02 May 1957
France 02 May 1957
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1957:
01 January 1957
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
30 August 1957
The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela.
11 October 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.
21 September 1957
Lalithangi is a queen who rules over her kingdom, showing the world that a woman could rule as effectively as a man.
17 December 1957
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
01 January 1957
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
28 August 1957
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater.
25 October 1957
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
01 June 1957
A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
06 November 1957
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
17 January 1957
Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.
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