Northwest Passage

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'.

Director: Jack Conway
Director: King Vidor
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Actor: Spencer Tracy
Actor: Robert Young
Actor: Walter Brennan
Actor: Ruth Hussey
Actor: Nat Pendleton
Actor: Louis Hector
Actor: Robert Barrat
Actor: Donald McBride
Actor: Douglas Walton
Actor: Addison Richards
Actor: Hugh Sothern
Actor: Regis Toomey
Actor: Montagu Love
Actor: Robert H. Barrat
Actor: Lumsden Hare
Actor: Isabel Jewell
Actor: Lester Matthews
Actor: Truman Bradley
Actor: Andrew Pena