Northwest Passage [videorecording] / M-G-M presents ; screenplay by Laurence Stallings and Talbot Jennings ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by King Vidor.
Based on the novel by Kenneth Roberts. Special feature: Vintage promotional featurette: Northward, Ho! Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey.
Summary:
An American historical drama about a group of settlers known as Rogers' Rangers-- led by Major Rogers (Spencer Tracy)-- and the hardships of survival and battles with hostile Indians, they encounter in trying to settle the upper New York state area for their families in the late 1750s and early 1760s.
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