Lost in Alaska

Lost in Alaska (1952)

It's ALL NEW and a RIOT TOO!

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

Date of release
1952-08-13
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Comedy, Adventure
Director
Jean Yarbrough

Casting

Interesting facts

Lost in Alaska is a 1952 American film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring comedy duo Abbott and Costello.

Production

The film project, under the working title of The Sourdoughs, appeared to be in jeopardy when in November 1951, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello filed a lawsuit against Universal Pictures and Realart Pictures for $5 million, a sum that included profits from their old films as well as compensation for damage to their artistic reputations for cutting their films into short reels and showing them in "cheap places of entertainment".

One week before production began, Lou Costello was quoted as saying: "Bud and I are making 'Sourdoughs' under protest. We're suing the studio for three million dollars." The men were hoping to be released from their contract, but they eventually settled for $2 million and additional profits from several of their prior films. Two weeks after the settlement, they renewed their contract with Universal Pictures through 1955.

Production began on December 3, 1951, with the film's title as The Sourdoughs. The following week, the film was retitled Lost in Alaska, and its production wrapped by the end of the month.

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