Call of the Yukon

Call of the Yukon
Directed byJohn T. Coyle (co-director)
B. Reeves Eason (co-director)
Written byJames Oliver Curwood (novel Swift Lightning)
Gertrude Orr (screenplay)
William Bartlett (screenplay)
Produced byArmand Schaefer for Republic Pictures
StarringRichard Arlen
Beverly Roberts
Lyle Talbot
CinematographyErnest Miller
Edited byHoward O'Neill
Music byAlberto Colombo
Production
company
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • April 18, 1938 (1938-04-18)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Call of the Yukon is a 1938 American action adventure film produced and released by Republic Pictures, directed by John T. Coyle and B. Reeves Eason and starring Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts and Lyle Talbot. The film features extensive Alaskan location shooting by Norman Dawn who shot several films there. The film is based on the 1926 novel Swift Lightning A Story Of Wildlife Adventure In The Frozen North by Northern genre writer James Oliver Curwood. The film's working titles were Thunder in Alaska and Swift Lightning.[1]