
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly. When a lost and snowblind girl stumbles into their camp, Hugh falls in love with her and misleads her as to the age and relationship of Pete and Bella, in hopes of keeping the girl's attentions directed at himself.


The first time we see Hugh Garth he is a smudge of peat-brown against an infinity of white, as though the tundra itself exhaled a blot of sin. Russell Simpson, granite-jawed and hawk-eyed, plays him like a man who has mistaken survival for absolution; every inhalation seems to snuff some fragment of decency. Beside h...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Reginald Barker

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" The first time we see Hugh Garth he is a smudge of peat-brown against an infinity of white, as though the tundra itself exhaled a blot of sin. Russell Simpson, granite-jawed and hawk-eyed, plays him like a man who has mistaken survival for absolution; every inhalation seems to snuff some fragment of decency. Beside him skitters Pete—Cullen Landis channels boyish wonder through a prism of apprehension—while Mary Alden’s Bella haunts the periphery, eyes tethered to Hugh with the mute resignation..."

Mary Alden
Katharine Newlin Burt, J.G. Hawks
United States

