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Emperor of the North Pole (1973)

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• This was originally a project for Sam Peckinpah.
  
  
• Based in part on the books 'The Road' by Jack London and 'From Coast to Coast with Jack London' by "A-No.-1", the pen name of Leon Ray Livingston.
  
  
• Keith Carradine's character Cigaret is named after the moniker that Jack London adopted on the road.
  
  

• The title refers to a joke among hobos during the Great Depression that the world's best hobo was Emperor of the North Pole, a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation since somebody ruling over the North Pole would be ruling over a wasteland.
  
  
• Willis Kyle, President of the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway, allowed the film company to have unlimited access to his company's rolling stock for the film.
  
  
• It was Robert Aldrich's intention that the characters played by Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Keith Carradine represented the Establishment, the Anti-Establishment and the Youth of Today respectively.
  
  
• Martin Rittwas originally slated to direct but was fired from the production. Sam Peckinpah was next in line but he couldn't agree on money so the project defaulted to Aldrich.
  
  

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