Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Simon Oakland, Elisha Cook Jr., Liam Dunn, Matt Clark, Malcolm Atterbury
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American action adventure film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, and Charles Tyner. It was later re-released on home media (and is more widely known) under the shorter title Emperor of the North, ostensibly chosen by studio executives to avoid being mistaken for a heartwarming holiday story. This original title is an homage to the historic joke among Great Depression-era hobos that the world's best hobo was "Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation, implying that somebody ruling over the North Pole would reign over nothing but a vast, barren, cold, empty, and stark was
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