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Alaska Highway is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank McDonald released in USA on 24 june 1943 with Richard Arlen

Alaska Highway (1943)

Alaska Highway
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Released in USA 24 june 1943
Length 1h6
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating50% 2.5074152.5074152.5074152.5074152.507415

Alaska Highway is a 1943 American film directed by Frank McDonald.

Synopsis

In February 1942 a road construction gang working in Northern California are summoned to a meeting. The boss of the gang has been commissioned as a Major in the US Army Corps of Engineers and signs up the entire crew with his two sons gaining direct entry as Technical Sergeants to build the Alcan Highway. One of the brothers wishes to enlist in the US Marine Corps to fight the Japanese rather than build another road. He changes his mind when he meets the daughter of one of the heads of the project with the two brothers fighting over her as they build the highway. Their feud is forgotten when the Japanese invade Kiska.

Actors

Richard Arlen

(Woody Ormsby)Jean Parker

(Ann Coswell)Ralph Sanford

(Frosty Gimble)William Henry

(Steve Ormsby (as Bill Henry))Joe Sawyer

(Roughhouse)
And :
Eddie Quillan
Harry Shannon
Edward Earle
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