NORTHWEST PASSAGE (MOVIE) - DVD-WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, War
• Plot: Spencer Tracy and a stellar supporting cast grab muskets, gun powder and knives, and head out for adventure in Northwest Passage, a lavish Technicolor® retelling of French and Indian War heroics. Based on Kenneth Robert’s best-seller, Tracy plays true-life explorer Major Robert Rogers, the intrepid leader of the celebrated Rogers’ Rangers fighting force that took on one of the most challenging expeditions in military history. Tracy’s portrayal brilliantly captures the American pioneering spirit, but he had to muster up his own will to carry it off. “It isn’t exactly fun to work in bitter cold and be sloshing through mud all day,” he said. For twelve grueling weeks of location shooting, he endured traipsing through swamps, crossing rapids and climbing mountains. Of this rousing epic (released shortly after Gone with the Wind), The New York Times wrote, “Now that the ‘Wind’ has stopped ruffling your hair, you can have it lifted, scalp and all, in Northwest Passage.”
• Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Donald MacBride, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Matthews, Truman Bradley, C.E. Anderson, Arthur Aylesworth, Lloyd Bridges, Rand Brooks, Don Castle, Richard Cramer, Warren Douglas, George Eldredge, Verna Felton, Edward Gargan, Gibson Gowland, Denis Green, Tony Guerrero, Frank Hagney, Gwendolyn Logan, Tom London, George Lynn, Helen MacKellar, Addie McPhail, John Merton, Ferdinand Munier, Ted Oliver, Eddie Parker, Andrew Pena, Lawrence Porter, Kent Rogers, Chief Sky Eagle, Robert St. Angelo, Ray Teal, Harry Wilson, Hank Worden, Frederick Worlock, King Vidor, Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings
• Director: King Vidor
• Runtime: 2:08
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie