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Northwest Passage is a 1940 Technicolor film, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey.
Plot[edit | edit source]
An epic Western, about Major Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy), the tough frontiersman who led a gruelling expedition to Canada in 1759 to punish a fearsome Indian tribe and seek a northwest passage to the Pacific. Langdon Towne (Robert Young) and Hunk Marriner (Walter Brennan) joined the Rangers at the Indian village, but when they head on to Fort Wentworth, they find the place deserted.
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Spencer Tracy as Major Rogers
- Robert Young as Langdon Towne
- Walter Brennan as "Hunk" Marriner
- Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Browne
- Nat Pendleton as "Cap" Huff
- Louis Hector as Reverend Browne
- Robert Barrat as Humphrey Towne
- Lumsden Hare as Lord Amherst
- Donald MacBride as Sergeant McNott
- Isabel Jewell as Jennie Coit
- Douglas Walton as Lieutenant Avery
- Addison Richards as Lieutenant Crofton
- Hugh Sothern as Jesse Beacham
- Regis Toomey as Webster
- Montagu Love as Wiseman Clagett
- Lester Matthews as Sam Livermore
- Truman Bradley as Captain Ogden
- Tom London as Ranger (uncredited)
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