North Star (1996 film)

North Star is a 1996 actionWestern film starring James Caan, Christopher Lambert and Catherine McCormack. Directed by Nils Gaup, it was written by Sergio Donati and loosely based on Henry Wilson Allens 1956 Western novel The North Star. Lambert executive produced the film.

The gangs latest target, Hudson Santeek Lambert narrowly escapes the attempt on his life but not before witnessing McLennons righthand thug, Reno Burt Young murder Santeeks adoptive father an elderly Athabaskan tribal chief in cold blood. Santeek, who is half white and half American Indian, had purchased his surrogate familys land in a bid to keep miners away.Santeek returns to Nome to confront McLennon at knifepoint in his bedroom, but Sarah McCormack McLennons young Irish immigrant trophy wife, intervenes at gunpoint McLennon disarms Santeek and the two engage in a fight. After Santeek floors McLennon, he kidnaps Sarah, steals a dogsled and rides off into the Alaskan wilderness. Without the permission of the local sheriff, McLennon forms a posse and treks out into the tundra to kill Santeek and rescue his wife. ........

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