Northwest Passage (film)
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Northwest Passage, also billed as Northwest Passage (Book 1: Roger's 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.
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Screenplay by | Laurence Stallings Talbot Jennings |
Based on | Northwest Passage 1937 novel by Kenneth Roberts |
Produced by | Hunt Stromberg |
Starring | Spencer Tracy Robert Young |
Cinematography | William V. Skall Sidney Wagner |
Edited by | Conrad A. Nervig |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
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Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,687,000[1][2] |
Box office | $3,150,000[1] |
Roberts's novel is split into two parts, referred to as "Book 1" and "Book 2", and the film is based entirely on Book 1. 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.