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Alaska (i/əˈlæskə/) is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($120 million in today's[when?] dollars) at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.
Actors: Norman S. Hall (writer), George Blair (director), Stanley Blystone (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Wade Crosby (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Rex Lease (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Emory Parnell (actor), House Peters Jr. (actor), Harry Keller (editor), Charles Soldani (actor), Duke Taylor (actor),
Plot: Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
Keywords: 1940s, alaska, alaska-native, aleutians, american, archive-footage, army-men, atomic-bomb, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smokingActors: Norman S. Hall (writer), George Blair (director), Stanley Blystone (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Wade Crosby (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Rex Lease (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Emory Parnell (actor), House Peters Jr. (actor), Harry Keller (editor), Charles Soldani (actor), Duke Taylor (actor),
Plot: Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
Keywords: 1940s, alaska, alaska-native, aleutians, american, archive-footage, army-men, atomic-bomb, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smokingActors: C.E. Anderson (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Tom London (actor), Barton MacLane (actor), Jim Mason (actor), George Melford (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Adrian Morris (actor), James C. Morton (actor), Richard Alexander (actor),
Genres: Drama,