Death Hunt

Death Hunt

Albert Johnson

Millen

Alvin

Hazel

The Pilot

Vanessa McBride

Bill Luce

Ned Warren

Hawkins

Hurley

Lewis

Beeler (as Dick Davalos)

Clarence

Deak De Bleargue

Trapper #1

Trapper #2

Trapper #3

Charlie Rat

News Reporter

W.W. Douglass (as Steve O.Z. Finkel)

Jimmy Tom

Indian Woman (as Tantoo Martin)

Buffalo Woman

Pilot Vern Ohmert was hired by the production to build a replica of a Bristol open cockpit bi-plane. This aircraft was the actual plane that was used by the Canadian Mounties to hunt down Albert Johnson during the 1930s. Ohmert visited the Imperial War Museum in London where two original planes were housed. Ohmert photographed and measured the historic planes to their exact technical specifications for the building of his model plane for the movie.

The movie was directed by Peter R. Hunt whose work on the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) was a significant factor in his hiring, as both this picture and that film are both predominantly set in snow-capped mountains.

The Captain Hank Tucker of the Royal Canadian Air Force character was fictionalized for this movie. In this picture he is portrayed as a yahoo who fires wildly at the search party and ends up dead. In the real life events of 1931-1932, the person his character is based on, Captain Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, did not die in these circumstances by crashing his plane into the side of a mountain. May was credited for both tracking down Albert Johnson and saving one of the mounties who had been shot by him.

While Albert Johnson is making his escape through the forest, a modern highway guardrail appears clearly in the background. These guardrails were not in use during the time of this story, and Johnson was supposed to be out in the wilderness.

When Johnson is trapped on the cliff and begins preparing to jump into the pine trees, the weather is sunny and there is no snow on the trees. Yet when he jumps, the sky is overcast and the trees are covered with snow; once he is back on the ground, it is sunny again and the snow is gone from the trees.

Alvin Adams transmits the call sign W6MQ over his radio. This is an amateur radio call sign issued by the United States, not an RCMP call sign issued by Canada.

Constable Alvin Adams: Well, I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Sergeant Edgar Millen: Let me give you a little advice, kid. Just throw those law books away, huh? It's better to turn your eyes and let them fight their damn dogs. Damn sight better than them killin' each other.

Sundog/George Washington Lincoln Brown: Hell, they didn't want to let me in the Majors and you know why.