- Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
- Directors: Jack Conway, King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke
- Writers: Bruno Frank, Conrad Richter, Elizabeth Hill, Frances Marion, Jack Singer
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 19 Feb 2001
- Run Time: 126 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CNDG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,602 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Northwest Passage is a great adventure film which is based on fact. During world war 2 it was used as a Commando training film, and as you watch it you can see why this is so.It is a story of great leadership and determined endeaver in the face of
great danger.Spenser Tracy leads an eccelent cast of character actors. Although made over 60 years ago the film is in colour and the print quality is very good. It compatres well with todays offerings. There is no bad language or sex scenes.
great danger.Spenser Tracy leads an eccelent cast of character actors. Although made over 60 years ago the film is in colour and the print quality is very good. It compatres well with todays offerings. There is no bad language or sex scenes.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Top of the line Adventure film
23 May 2000
Northwest Passage still holds up after 60 years. Great outdoor locations and excellent color cinematography make this a most watchable classic. Spencer Tracy is perfect as Robert Rogers, the first American commando during the French and Indian wars. Robert Young is also excellent as Langdon Towne, a Harvard failure talked into joining Roger's Rangers. Add the always entertaining Walter Brennan and you have a very good movie, perfect for almost all ages. This film will keep your attention. I'm surprised that this movie hasn't been mentioned more often as one of the better adventure films ever made. Historically speaking, the film follows the Rangers' raid on St. Frances without adding any undo Hollywood hype. I strongly recommend this film for anybody 8 years old and up.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A very good view of the French & Indian War
21 Oct 2003
Northwest Passage is a very good account of the attack on St. Francis. It is very accurate in many ways and I recommend it highly.
Robert Young plays a fictitious character shot though the mid-section and was still able to walk all the way back to civilization. Beleive-it-or-not, it did happen. I believe the real man's name was Lt.Ogdon. He did survive such a wound in that battle.
Spencer Tracy is excellent as usual and the scenery is beautiful.
Some will say that the film is racist and brutal. It was; but this is an historical film and you must view it, or any historical film or book, with the morals of the time in which it is set. You cannot look at it with present-day morals. If you are unable to do so, then, to be an educated person, you need to read more history and learn what things were like and what people thought about the American Indians, and the French for that matter, in the 1750's and 60's. Thus you will learn how far we have come in the last 200 years in our relations with other peoples. We may not be perfect yet, but we're getting there.
Robert Young plays a fictitious character shot though the mid-section and was still able to walk all the way back to civilization. Beleive-it-or-not, it did happen. I believe the real man's name was Lt.Ogdon. He did survive such a wound in that battle.
Spencer Tracy is excellent as usual and the scenery is beautiful.
Some will say that the film is racist and brutal. It was; but this is an historical film and you must view it, or any historical film or book, with the morals of the time in which it is set. You cannot look at it with present-day morals. If you are unable to do so, then, to be an educated person, you need to read more history and learn what things were like and what people thought about the American Indians, and the French for that matter, in the 1750's and 60's. Thus you will learn how far we have come in the last 200 years in our relations with other peoples. We may not be perfect yet, but we're getting there.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
A Must-See for Colonial America Enthusiasts
5 May 2000
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This movie, although mistitled, portrays the spirit and adventure our forefathers had to possess to survive living on the fringes of civilization. The entire reason Rogers' Rangers made the trek to the Abenaki village was to destroy it and stop that tribe's raids on their farms and establishments in upper NY state. This occurred during the last of the many bloody French And Indian Wars. Spencer Tracey is at his best in this film, which follow's Kenneth Robert's book almost to the letter.
Now sit back, and enjoy one of the true classics on early Americana.
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