Ernest Borgnine is the meanest sonofabitch on the railroad and Lee
Marvin is the hobo who gives him a hard time riding the rails. The
period is the Depression when hobos rode the rails with impunity and it
was up to hard-as-nails guys like Ernest to stop them. Robert Aldrich's
"Emperor of the North" is one of his male-orientated pictures,
displaying a good deal of his signature brutality and while it's a minor
work in the Aldrich canon it has much to recommend it; here it's the
duel to the death between Marvin and Borgnine who makes for a truly
nasty villain and is just one of the reasons why this is such a
ridiculously entertaining picture. Nice work too from a young Keith
Carradine as a fellow hobo with aspirations to take Marvin's crown as
'Emperor of the North'.
Thursday, 6 June 2019
EMPEROR OF THE NORTH **
Ernest Borgnine is the meanest sonofabitch on the railroad and Lee
Marvin is the hobo who gives him a hard time riding the rails. The
period is the Depression when hobos rode the rails with impunity and it
was up to hard-as-nails guys like Ernest to stop them. Robert Aldrich's
"Emperor of the North" is one of his male-orientated pictures,
displaying a good deal of his signature brutality and while it's a minor
work in the Aldrich canon it has much to recommend it; here it's the
duel to the death between Marvin and Borgnine who makes for a truly
nasty villain and is just one of the reasons why this is such a
ridiculously entertaining picture. Nice work too from a young Keith
Carradine as a fellow hobo with aspirations to take Marvin's crown as
'Emperor of the North'.
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