James Oliver CurwoodFilmography

The Bear

Jean-Jacques Annaud directed this unusual and compelling tale of animals in the wild, which tells its tale from the bears'...

Nikki: Wild Dog of the North

One of several feature-length collaborations between Disney Studios and Canada's Calgary productions (others include Big Red...

Yukon Vengeance

In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers. ~ Sandra...

Back to God's Country

The oft-filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country is given the Technicolor treatment in this 1953...

Fangs of the Arctic

A courageous Mountie and his trusty dog Chinook traverse the Northwest Territory, through blizzards and other travails in...

Northern Patrol

Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists' off-and-on "Northwest Mountie" series. Taking time off from...

Yukon Gold

In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female...

Northwest Territory

Monogram's on-and-off "Northwest Mountie" series was on again with 1952's Northwest Territory. Ostensibly based on a...

Yukon Manhunt

In this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and discover that it is an inside job....

Timber Fury

Timber Fury was based on a story by North-Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood. The plot concerns the efforts of a timber...

Snow Dog

The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer...

Call of the Klondike

Partially filmed in the San Bernardino Mountains, Call of the Klondike was perhaps the best of producer Lindsley Parson's...

Kazan

Based on a James Oliver Curwood story, Kazan was one of those "little" pictures of the late 1940s which gained a lofty...

The Wolf Hunters

Compared to his later "A" westerns, director Oscar "Budd" Boetticher's The Wolf Hunters is often exasperatingly slow. This...

Trail of the Yukon

"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...

God's Country

In this western comedy, the mis-adventures of a bumbling range rider are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...

Dawn on the Great Divide

The Rough Riders--Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton and Rex Bell--endeavor to provide a wagon train safe passage through Indian...

Law of the Timber

PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood....

River's End

Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940....

Call of the Yukon

In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a...

Galloping Dynamite

Based on a story by James Oliver Curwood, this western follows the quest of Texas Ranger Jim (Kermit Maynard) to track down...

God's Country and the Woman

Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...

Rough Ridin' Rhythm

Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of cowboy legend Ken Maynard, stars in this low-budget horse opera. The elementary story...

The Silver Trail

Clearly made several years before its 1938 New York release, The Silver Trail serves as an adequate vehicle for canine star...

Roaring Six Guns

Kermit Maynard, the less-popular but arguably more talented brother of cowboy star Ken Maynard, heads the cast of Roaring Six...

Wild Horse Round-Up

With Wild Horse Round-Up, cowboy star Kermit Maynard put his "Canadian Mountie" film series behind him to concentrate on...

The Fighting Texan

Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's series for Ambassador Films was evenly divided between Northwest-Mountie adventures and...

Caryl of the Mountains

Caryl is played by Lois Wilde, but despite her title-character status Ms. Wilde is third-billed behind a pair of "juniors."...

The Country Beyond

The Country Beyond is based on one of the scores of Canadian-Northwest yarns written by James Oliver Curwood. Robert Kent...

Whistling Bullets

Whistling Bullets was one of better Kermit Maynard westerns from the Ambassador Pictures "B"-mill. Based on a story by James...

Song of the Trail

Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's rope-twirling skills are seen to good advantage in Song of the Trail. Maynard is cast as a...

Timber War

Like most of Kermit Maynard's "northerns" for Ambassador Films, Timber War is ostensibly based on a story by James Oliver...

Wildcat Trooper

Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...

Phantom Patrol

An existing production still for the Kermit Maynard "northern" Phantom Patrol pretty much sums up the outcome of the plot....

Code of the Mounted

In this western about the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a fur trapper is robbed and killed by a local...

Trails of the Wild

Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...

Wilderness Mail

In this off-beat outdoor adventure, a courageous Mountie braves the elements and many dangers to deliver mail to remote...

Northern Frontier

The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the...

Red Blood of Courage

Kermit Maynard once again dons a Mountie uniform in Ambassador Films' Red Blood of Courage. The plot gets underway when Mark...

Skull and Crown

Proof positive that Reliable Pictures' Skull and Crown was filmed several years before its 1938 New York premiere is the...

His Fighting Blood

This Western stars Kermit Maynard as a man who goes to jail for a crime actually committed by his brother and his gang. Upon...

The Trail Beyond

Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...

The Fighting Trooper

Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of western favorite Ken Maynard, launched his own starring series for Ambassador Films...

River's End

The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...

Yellowback

Produced by FBO Pictures, Yellowback was ultimately release by FBO's successor RKO Radio. Tom Moore stars as Canadian Mountie...

Hearts of Men

Hearts of Men was based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. At first glance, hero Cornelius Keefe seems to be a coward. And...

The Old Code

A handsome French trapper must chose between an Indian girl and a pretty white orphan in this Northwoods melodrama produced...

The Thunder God

Ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this minor silent Northwest melodrama featured Cornelius Keefe as a...

Back to God's Country

The frequently filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country was given reverential treatment in this impressive...

Slaver

The Slaver is ostensibly based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. The hero, Pat O'Malley, is a deckhand on the slave ship...

A Captain's Courage

Silent serial star Ben Wilson was the penny-pinching producer of the 1926 feature Captain's Courage. Set in the North Woods,...

Tentacles of the North

It's a little hard to believe that James Oliver Curwood wrote all the stories attributed to him on film. Allegedly inspired...

Prisoners of the Storm

Prisoners of the Storm was based on the rugged James Oliver Curwood yarn The Quest of Joan. When two Canadian prospectors...

Wolf Hunters

A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew,...

Flaming Forest

Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as...

Country Beyond

The Country Beyond is another "Northwest Mountie" opus from the pen of James Oliver Curwood. Filmed on location in Canada's...

Steele of the Royal Mounted

Based on a novel by popular pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, who had a passion for lusty Northwoods melodrama, Steele of the...

Baree, Son of Kazan

A typical Northwoods romance from the pen of pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, Baree, Son of Kazan had been filmed rather...

When the Door Opened

This tale of the Northwoods is yet another James Oliver Curwood story brought to the silver screen. Clive Grenfal (Walter...

The Ancient Highway

Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a rugged logger in The Ancient Highway. When not cutting down trees and shouting...

My Neighbor's Wife

Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father...

The Alaskan

Thomas Meighan single-handedly saves Alaska in this James Oliver Curwood tale of the Northwest, which was shot on-location in...

Gold Madness

Although this poorly constructed Yukon tale was based on James Oliver Curwood's magazine story The Man From Ten Strike, it's...

The Valley of Silent Men

Although the silent screen of the early '20s was inundated with dramas of the Northwest, many of them based on the novels of...

Girl from Porcupine

It's no surprise that this rugged story of the Northwest is based on a James Oliver Curwood novel. Two miners (Jack Drumier...

God's Country and the Law

A pert Vitagraph ingenue very much cast in the Mary Pickford mold and advertised as "The Girl with the Million Dollar Smile,"...

Courage of Marge O'Doone

All the elements are here that one would expect from a picture based on a story by James Oliver Curwood: it takes place in...

Nomads of the North

Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...

The Awakening

The Awakening resurrected the time-honored bromide about the brilliant peasant artist who is seduced and corrupted by wicked...

Two Women

This Vitagraph three-reeler stars two of the studio's most popular attractions, Anita Stewart and John Emerson. While married...

Jungle Lovers

James Oliver Curwood, an author better known for his stories of the Canadian Northwest, wrote the screenplay for the Selig...

Fighting Chance

Why I Am Here