The Wild North (Finnish: Villi Pohjola) is a 1955 Finnish Western comedy adventure film written and directed by Aarne Tarkas. The film is starring by Tapio Rautavaara and Elina Pohjanpää.
The film was not a box office success, generating losses of four million Finnish marks, and the film's reception was also mixed. However, the film received two sequels in 1963: and .
Plot The time of the events is not specified in the film and the events are said to take place in the fictional town of Utopila in the Wild North, a place that "cannot be found on maps and encyclopedias." Karin Turkka, searching for the murderer of her geologist father and a map of a lost gold deposit, arrives in Utopila, where the village community, ruled by Mayor Markus, directs her to the trail of Tundra-Tauno, former guide of her father and the suspect of the murder.
Cast Tapio Rautavaara as Tundra-Tauno Elina Pohjanpää as Karin Turkka Matti Oravisto as Officer Aino-Maija Tikkanen as Maija Matti Tamminen as Mayor Markus Leo Jokela as Cardsharp
See also List of Euro-Western films List of Finnish films of the 1950s
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