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The Spell of the Yukon
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Burton King

Cast: Edmund Breese [Jim Carson], Christine Mayo [Helen Temple], Arthur Hoops [Albert Temple], Evelyn Brent [Dorothy Temple], Billy Sherwood (William Sherwood) [Bob Adams], Frank McArthur [Megar], Joseph S. Chailee [Rusty], Jacques Suzanne [Billy Denny], Mary Reed [Yukon Kate], Harry Moreville [Ike Boring], Baby Volare (Lorna Volare) [Bob Adams, as baby], Claire Lillian Barry

Popular Plays and Players, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Wallace C. Clifton, from a screen story by Aaron Hoffman based on the poem “The Spell of the Yukon” by Robert W. Service. Assistant director, Dale Henshaw. Cinematography by Leo Bergman. Presented by Popular Plays and Players, Incorporated. / © 24 May 1916 by Popular Plays and Players, Incorporated [LP8342]. Released 15 May 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Northwoods.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 January 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.