Abbott and Costello in Lost In Alaska
Lost in Alaska , directed by the prolific Jean Yarbrough, came out in 1952 when Alaska wasn't yet a state. The film wasn't shot in Alaska. Universal Studios in Universal City, California, served in an obviously ersatz way as late 1890s San Francisco and Alaska. The "snow," with dim lighting sometimes, reminded me of the same piles of white fake snow substance in the World War Two movie that scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, Battleground (1949). Hollywood snow, so dusty-looking, when kicked and settling again to the ground, resembles moon dust disturbed by astronauts as they hop-walk in films from another world. 1952, another world from 2022, yet, 1952 had its big war, too, in a small country, biggest powers arming and fighting and killing, spawning a Robert Altman film and a long-running TV series about a mobile hospital in Korea. Starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costel...