Reading Maps

Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Hal Walker · 1946 · overland

Filmed during the war but released in 1946, this entry heads not for the tropics but the frozen Klondike. Two vaudevillians sail to gold-rush Alaska with a stolen map to a fortune, posing as a pair of murderous outlaws and dodging the real ones, in a snowbound parody of the gold-rush adventure complete with a talking bear and a narrator who keeps interrupting.

  1. 1
    San Francisco

    With a stolen map to a gold mine, the two stowaways head north by steamer to the Klondike.

  2. 2
    Skagway

    They land in gold-rush Alaska posing as a pair of feared killers, which fools everyone except the actual killers.

  3. 3
    The Klondike

    Over the frozen passes to the gold fields of Utopia, pursued by villains and aided, sort of, by a talking bear.

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Road to Utopia Map: Hal Walker's Journey