: The pursuit lasted 48 days in sub-zero temperatures, covering over 150 miles across frozen terrain. Johnson famously scaled the Richardson Mountains—a feat considered impossible at the time.
: This was the first Canadian manhunt to utilize airplanes (a Bristol open-cockpit bi-plane) to track a fugitive from the air. Death Hunt
: In 1931, Johnson allegedly interfered with local trappers' lines in the Northwest Territories. When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrived to question him, he shot and wounded a constable through his cabin door. : The pursuit lasted 48 days in sub-zero
Directed by Peter Hunt, this action-thriller reimagines the manhunt as a tale of rugged individualism versus a corrupt community. a mysterious fugitive in Northern Canada.
The film's source material is the manhunt for , a mysterious fugitive in Northern Canada.