Ice Palace (film)

Ice Palace is a 1960 motion picture adapted from Edna Ferbers 1958 novel of the same name. The film, directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Richard Burton, dramatized the debate over Alaska statehood. Alaska had become a state in 1959.

Kennedy launches a packing company in Baranof, hiring Wang as well as his old friend, Dave Husack Jim Backus. His persistent feelings for Ballantyne, now abandoned by her fianc, are no secret to his wife. The Kennedys give birth to a daughter, Grace. Storm returns to Baranof with an infant son, Christopher, born to an Eskimo wife who died after labor. Over the following years, Storm comes to resent Kennedy for his cannerys use of salmon traps, which are depleting the salmon population and putting fishermen out of business. Meanwhile, their children, Christopher Steve Harris and Grace Shirley Knight, begin a romance. Kennedy tells Storm to keep his halfbreed kid away from his daughter. Storm, drawing on the support of fishermen and Alaska natives, becomes a candidate for the Alaska Territorial Legislature on a platform advocating statehood and opposing the excesses of business mogul Czar Kennedy. Christopher and Grace elope to live among Christophers maternal relations in the fictional village of Anavak. Graces mother, Dorothy Kennedy dies.Grace becomes pregnant, and the young couple decides to make a journey to Baranof so that the child is born there. They set off by dog sled, but Grace begins labor en route, and Christopher is waylaid by a bear and killed. Graces father, Zeb, along with Thor and Aunt Bridie, intercept and shoot the bear. Grace gives birth to a baby girl, Christine, but dies. Christine grows up between the houses of Ballantyne and her feuding grandfathers, Kennedy and Storm. Kennedy grooms Dave Husacks son, Bay Ray Danton, to be his champion in the territorial legislature. He encourages the young lawyer to marry Christine for political advantage. Ballantyne discovers and exposes the plot, and the engagement is broken. ........

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