Northwest Passage (1940)
February 23, 1940Release Date
Northwest Passage (1940)
February 23, 1940Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Spencer Tracy
Major Robert Rogers
Robert Young
Langdon Towne
Walter Brennan
'Hunk' Marriner
Ruth Hussey
Elizabeth Browne
Nat Pendleton
'Cap' Huff
Louis Hector
Reverend Browne
Robert Barrat
Humphrey Towne
Lumsden Hare
Lord Amherst
Donald MacBride
Sergeant McNott
Isabel Jewell
Jennie Coit
Douglas Walton
Lieutenant Avery
Regis Toomey
Webster
Lloyd Bridges
Uniformed Soldier / Officer
Addison Richards
Lieutenant Crofton
Hugh Sothern
Jesse Beacham
Montagu Love
Wiseman Clagett
Lester Matthews
Sam Livermore
Truman Bradley
Captain Ogden
C.E. Anderson
Ranger
Arthur Aylesworth
Innkeeper Flint
Rand Brooks
Eben Towne
Don Castle
Richard Towne
Richard Cramer
Sheriff Packer
George Eldredge
McMullen
Verna Felton
Mrs. Towne
Edward Gargan
Capt. Butterfield
Gibson Gowland
MacPherson
Denis Greene
Capt. Williams
Tony Guerrero
Capt. Jacobs
Frank Hagney
Capt. Grant
Gwendolyn Logan
Mrs. Browne
Tom London
Ranger
George Lynn
Joe Turner
Helen MacKellar
Sarah Hadden
Addie McPhail
Jane Browne
John Merton
Lt. Dunbar
Ferdinand Munier
Stoodley - Tavern Keeper
Ted Oliver
Farrington
Eddie Parker
Ranger
Andrew Pena
Konkapot
Lawrence Porter
Billy - Indian Boy
Kent Rogers
Odiorne Towne
George Sky Eagle
Indian Man
Robert St. Angelo
Solomon
Ray Teal
Bradley McNeil
Harry Wilson
Ranger
Hank Worden
Ranger Tying Oars
Frederick Worlock
Sir William Johnson
King Vidor
Director
Laurence Stallings
Screenplay
Talbot Jennings
Screenplay
Kenneth Roberts
Novel
Hunt Stromberg
Producer
Herbert Stothart
Original Music Composer
William V. Skall
Director of Photography
Sidney Wagner
Director of Photography
Conrad A. Nervig
Editor
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Joe Cooke
Unit Manager
Jay Marchant
Unit Manager
Frank Messenger
Unit Manager
Robert A. Golden
Assistant Director
Bert Spurlin
Assistant Director
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 23, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 6m
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Northwest Passage, also billed as Northwest Passage (Book 1: Rogers' Rangers), is a 1940 American Western film in Technicolor, directed by King Vidor. It stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan and Ruth Hussey. The film is set in 1759, and tells a partly fictionalized version of the real-life St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers, led by Robert Rogers (played by Tracy) on the primarily Abenaki village of St. Francis, in modern-day Canada. The screenplay, by Laurence Stallings and Talbot Jennings, is based on the 1937 historical novel Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts.
Roberts' novel is split into two parts, referred to as "Book 1" and "Book 2". The film, which is based entirely on Book 1, makes significant changes in the story (including a “happy ending”) that so displeased Roberts that he vowed not to sell film rights to any more of his books. There was originally discussion about filming a sequel that would cover Book 2, but this did not happen. Ironically, Rogers' quest to find a Northwest Passage through North America, which gave both the novel and the film their title, takes place in Book 2, and is only briefly mentioned in the film.