Kätketyn kullan maa (1996)

Kätketyn kullan maa (1996). Kätketyn kullan maa: Directed by Nils Gaup. With James Caan, Christopher Lambert, Catherine McCormack, Burt Young. Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's "assistants". One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named "Hudson Saanteek", manages to escape his hired thugs, and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills, and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.

“North Star is unique for a European western in that itu0026#39;s set in Alaska, far from the sun baked deserts of the southwest. Everything else is disappointingly typical.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCaan plays a black-hearted land baron in 1899 Alaska whou0026#39;s systematically murdered and cheated his way into being the owner of the largest goldmines in the area. He tries to kill Lambert, a half Eskimo who had the good sense to file a claim on his peopleu0026#39;s sacred (and gold rich) cave.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt isnu0026#39;t boring but a chase movie where Christopher Lambert squares off against James Caan and Burt Young in a savage frontier battle for survival should have generated more heat than this, especially being that this is co-written by Sergio Donati, who also helped pen For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon A Time In The West!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s pretty straight forward and unpretentious but it made me wish it were more compelling. The characters were pretty cardboard, though Caan seems to be having some fun swinging back and forth between greedy and treacherous to insane and out of control.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso, everyone appears to be under-dressed. This movie takes place in Nome, Alaska during a snowstorm but everyoneu0026#39;s dressed like itu0026#39;s Fall.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLee Marvin and Charles Bronson were better in Death Hunt, watch that one first!”