The White Dawn

The White Dawn

6.7IMDb Score
Released:1974-07-21
Duration:110 min
Director:Philip Kaufman
Actors:Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie, Simonie Kopapik
Production:Paramount Pictures, American Film Properties, Filmways Pictures

Overview:

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

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