The hider of the north7/16/2023 She applied for the position as Teacher Director and her early childhood development career began in 1971 at 2,3,4 Playhouse in Oklahoma City. ![]() Later she was referred to the Community Action Head Start Program. Carole received a Bachelor of Home Economics degree in 1970 and a Master of Urban Education degree in 1992 from Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma.Īfter receiving her bachelor’s degree, she was employed with the Oklahoma City Public Schools as a teacher at Woodson. She attended Rosenwald School and Faver High School in Guthrie. of Guthrie, Oklahoma by her parents Sterling and Adel Williams. The action scenes on the other hand, are brilliantly done, and the climactic fight at the end is well worth the wait.Carole Marie Williams Hider was born on November 13, 1944, and raised on a farm N.W. Also, Cigaret's volubility is often obnoxious, and he seems to be saying the same things, again and again and though Carradine plays him well enough, he comes across as too middle class and at times too delicate for the role. There's too much of a weary, real life-battered aspect to the characters for them to rise to iconic stature. Though Knopf's dialogue is at times excellent, the movie's realism works against its mythic qualities, and there's too much swearing. I sense that Aldrich, and screenwriter Christopher Knopf, were aiming for a larger than life effect, and that they were trying to create a sort of Great American Myth, like Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed. The clashing of these three personalities constitutes the bulk of the film, and is basically what it is about. He fools no one, least of all A-1, who tries to teach him a thing or two, with only middling success. Cigaret is a kid, with a big ego and even bigger mouth who loves to tell stories about his exploits, none of them true. Unlike A-1, Shack has no sense of style indeed, he doesn't even seem to own his personality. To call him a type A personality would be a gross understatement. ![]() His opposite number, Shack, is a sadistic company man who relishes lording over others with a big stick, sometimes literally. For him, being a hobo is almost a calling, and his acceptance by his fellow tramps constitutes a kind of knighthood, a status he guards jeaously. Marvin's character of A-1 is independent, shrewd and ethically minded, with a great sense of style. The Emperor Of the North Pole is more character study than story. He obviously loves railraods, old railroad uniforms, tramps, the Pacific Northwest, junkyards and the great outdoors generally, all copiously present here, aided in no small measure by Joe Biroc's lyrical photography. Aldrich has a real feeling for what one might call WASP schmaltz, and he pours it on like ketchup on a Big Mac. His fondness for improbable material is evident here, as once again he shows himself fascinated by the seemingly impossible task. The story revolves around the attempt of both men to ride the Number 19, a train lorded over by vicious railroadman Shack (Ernest Borgnine), who is known for despising hoboes, and for attacking them with hammer and chains! Director Robert Aldrich works wonders with this tall tale, some of it based on true stories. Directed by Robert Aldrich, and bearing his unmistakable anarchist's stamp, it tells the story of two hoboes, one, A-1, played by Lee Marvin, a seasoned, lone wolf, and the other, Cigaret (Keith Carradine), a young boaster who tags along for the rides, and forever tries to convince his friend and mentor that he is in the same league with him in the art of hobodom, and maybe even better. Anyone who sees this film you will never even consider hopping on a boxcar again. For you teenagers out there, or parents of teenagers who have expressed a desire to run away from home and ride the rails, this movie is the perfect antidote.
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