---
title: 'Emperor of the North Pole (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Aldrich'
released: '1973-05-24'
runtime_minutes: 118
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/emperor-of-the-north-pole-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070030/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Emperor of the North Pole (1973)

1973 · 118 min · Drama, Action · United States


## Synopsis

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 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 wasteland. The film depicts the story of two hobos' struggle during the Great Depression in 1930s Oregon.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Aldrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-aldrich)
- **Screenplay:** [Christopher Knopf](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-knopf)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Frank De Vol](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-de-vol)
- **Producer:** [Stan Hough](https://cinepixo.com/people/stan-hough)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph F. Biroc](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-f-biroc)
- **Editor:** [Michael Luciano](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-luciano)

## Cast

- [Keith Carradine](https://cinepixo.com/people/keith-carradine)
- [Elisha Cook Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisha-cook-jr)
- [Robert Foulk](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-foulk)
- [Vic Tayback](https://cinepixo.com/people/vic-tayback)
- [Liam Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/liam-dunn)
- [Lance Henriksen](https://cinepixo.com/people/lance-henriksen)
- [Simon Oakland](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-oakland)
- [Sid Haig](https://cinepixo.com/people/sid-haig)
- [Malcolm Atterbury](https://cinepixo.com/people/malcolm-atterbury)
- [Ernest Borgnine](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-borgnine)
- [Matt Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-clark)
- [Lee Marvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-marvin)
- [Charles Tyner](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-tyner)

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