Arthur Barking

The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a documentary, the film is able to accommodate a dramatic throughline, concerning the redemption of wastrelly millionaire's son Allan Blom (Allan Bohlin). Pressed into service on the expedition, Allan shows he's a true son of Scandanavia through his courageous actions on the high seas, and even wins the hand of heroine Sonja (Tutta Rolf) in the bargain. While the whaling scenes are both exciting and exhillarating, the sequence in which a whale carcass is stripped and gutted may not appeal to everyone in the audience. Originally filmed in 1939 in Swedish and Norwegian, The Whalers was helpfully fitted out with English subtitles for its 1942 American run.

A hairdresser wins the lottery and decides to spoil herself by spending Easter at a mountain resort where she meets new people.

The poor but skilled woodcutter Simen is conned by the rich Pikajord. Simen's answer is to reenact his own death through disappearance, and come back as a ghost. But then his attractive wife looks like a widow.

Widowed Klara James, which has a son Robert, is adored by Captain Frank, but he wants her married to a count, which ultimately is recognized as a spy.

In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.

The sibling Beate (17) and Jens (12) have lost their parent in a train accident, and their remote family tries to get rid of the children to get hold of the land and properties.

When a popular doctor, leading the job to get a hospital to town, celebrates his 60th birthday there's a big party. But a new doctor discovers malpractice. But when the doctor is ill with a bad appendix, the tables are turned.

A rebellion strike at a mountain work is infiltrated by crooks, and they have to rise up against the rotten apples in their work force.

Iver loses his Romani-parents in an avalanche, and gets adopted by farmer Sjur. Years later, his background comes back to cause trouble in his personal life.