Tentacles of the North (1926)

Directed by

Louis William Chaudet

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

54 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Arctic whaling expedition goes wrong when two ships get stuck in ice. The men must abandon their whale cargo and find migrating Eskimos before they freeze or starve.

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What happens

In the Tentacles of the North is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by Louis Chaudet and starring Gaston Glass, Alice Calhoun and Joseph W. Girard. Two ships, on a journey led by Captain Van Horn, become trapped in ice in the Arctic Ocean. The crews have to abandon their cargo from whaling, and go out searching for a group of migrating eskimos. This is their only chance at survival. It was based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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