Films Shot in Jasper

Olive Borden in a canoe used during the filming of the Country Beyond. [1925]

Country Beyond 1926

Filmed on location at Maligne Lake.

Director: Irving Cummings –

Actors: Olive Borden & Ralph Graves

Local riders filled in for Mounties in the filming of Red Sky. [1929]

Red Sky/Under Suspicion 1930

Filmed on location at Jasper Park Lodge.

Director: A.F. Erikson

Actors: Lois Moran & J. Harold Murray

Bob Baxter Jr. with Bing Crosby & Joan Fontaine. [1945] Harry Rowed photo.

Emperor Waltz 1946

Filmed on location at Leach Lake, The Jasper Park Lodge, and the Edith Cavell Road.

Director: Billy Wilder

Actors: Bing Crosby & Joan Fontaine

Kay Baxter skiing past the branches to be used in Song of the Ski. [1946]

Song of the Ski. 1947

A National Film Board Film shot in the Tonquin Valley with local skiers Jack Pugh, Kay Baxter, Fred Brewster, George Camp, Tom McCready & Ken Cook.

The cast of the Far Country at the Columbia Icefields. 1952

Far Country 1953

Filmed on location at Mount Edith Cavell and the Columbia Icefields.

Director:  Anthony Mann 

Actors: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Walter Brennan & Harry Morgan.

Rose Marie 1953

Remake of the original film that starred Nelson Eddy and Jeanette. MacDonald. Filmed on location at Maligne Lake.

Director: Mervin LeRoy 

Actors: Ann Blythe, Howard Keel & Fernando Lamas

The Cast of River of No return with Spero Paravantes. [1952]

River of No Return 1953

Filmed on location in Banff and Jasper at Devona beside the Snake Indian River.

Director:  Otto Preminger –

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum & Rory Cahoun

Buster Keaton in Jasper filming The Railrodder. Photo by Sandy Robinson. [1958]

The Railrodder 1959

A film by the National Film Board starring Buster Keaton filmed on location on a railway track speeder across Canada.

Wings of Chance 1959

Filmed on location at Lake Annette & Jasper Park Lodge.

Director: Eddie Dew 

Francis Rafferty, James Brown & Richard Tretter

Brochure for Challenge: Canadian Rockies.

Challenge: The Canadian Rockies 1981

Wendy Wacko produced this documentary narrated by Peter Ustinov and featuring Jasper skiers and mountain climbers.

Cast of Shanghai Express at Marmot Basin. 1985

Shanghai Express 1986

(Also Millionaire’s Express)

Filmed on location at Marmot Basin with many Jasperites.

Actors: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Richard Norton & Cynthia Rothrock.

Leslie Nielsen, Avice Heckley, Colin McLean & others filming Striker’s Mountain. 1986

Strikers Mountain 1987

Filmed on location at the Cariboos Lodge, B.C.

Director: Alan Simmonds

Writer: Wendy Wacko

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Mimi Kuzyk, August Schellenberg, Bruce Greenwood & many Jasperites.

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