Northwest Passage
(Book I - Rogers' Rangers)

US (1940): Adventure/Biography/Drama/Western

In 1759, real-life pioneer Major Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy) and his band of Rangers set out to blaze a trail from the colonies to the Pacific Ocean. Cartoonist Robert Young turns into a mapmaker and learns the ways of the frontier when he signs on with Tracy's troops and their battle with French-backed Indians. A masterwork from director King Vidor based on the novel by Kenneth Roberts. Northwest Passage was intended as the first of a two-part film, but the second part was never made. It was Vidor's first color film. The MGM cast includes Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Robert Barrat, Isabel Jewell and Regis Toomey. (amctv.com)

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