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  Northwest Passage (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Popular Northwest Passage routes through the Canadian archipelago :''For the film of this name, see Northwest Passage (movie).'' The Northwest Passage is a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic archipelago of Canada.
The Northwest Passage was not conquered by sea until 1906, When the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had sailed just in time to escape creditors seeking to stop the expedition, completed a three-year voyage in the converted 47-ton herring boat Gjøa.
The Northwest Passage is the subject of a territorial dispute Between Canada and the United States.
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 Northwest Passage — FactMonster.com
Northwest Passage, water routes through the Arctic Archipelago, N Canada, and along the northern coast of Alaska between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The Northwest Passage, however, remained the most important goal, and the search for the passage continued even though at that time such a route had no commercial value.
Proof of the existence of the passage in the mid-1800s only revealed how difficult its transit would be, and it was not until the early 20th cent.
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 THE BROOKLYN RAIL - EXPRESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The movie is filled with such inaccuracies, yet one aspect of the original event does filter through even the gauzy lens of Hollywood: the brutality of the raid, even in a film with a celebratory point of view, still seems far from heroic.
Northwest Passage is one of those rare texts in which everything was laid bare without anyone meaning to do so, thereby allowing the secret history of colonialism to seep through the celluloid and compete for recognition with the "official version" the filmmakers intended to honor—which is to say, the text is easily inverted.
The Abenaki writer Joseph Bruchac saw Northwest Passage as a young boy in upstate New York, and he still remembers the trauma of hearing some of the final words of the film: "Sir, I have the honor to report that the Abenakis are destroyed," Major Rogers tells his delighted superiors.
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One of the things I'm really trying to achieve with Northwest Passage is the pace and feel of a novel, not of a collected comic book series or a movie on paper.
Mostly what inspired Northwest Passage, though, was my desire not to be forever known as "that guy who draws comics about the 1950s".
With Northwest Passage I'm doing something different again, as the story demands, but it's still within the boundaries of my style, which is a sort of classic illustration look.
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 Amazon.com: Northwest Passage: Video: Spencer Tracy,Robert Young,Walter Brennan,Ruth Hussey,Nat Pendleton,Louis ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Northwest Passage is a very good account of the attack on St. Francis.
Re-seeing the movie at intervals through the years I have not felt that it was diminished by the changes made for the movie.
Good 40's action movie a little bit anti-french but i did like it especially this part US history of pr-independance when the yankees threw out the sweds, dutch, french, native indian they could not otherwise they did.
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 No. 1240: Northwest Passage
The map shows there really is a Northwest Passage where Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Melville Sound, and McClure Strait all form one long channel.
It was 1906 before Roald Amundson sailed all the way through the Passage, and it took him three years in an ice cutter.
So in any practical sense, the only Northwest Passage is one that might serve a nuclear submarine.
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 Unusual Gifts : Northwest Passage
One is compelled to say, in these Politically Correct times, that Northwest Passage takes a distinctly "unenlightened" view of the 18th-century American colonists' Indian neighbors.
I first saw this picture when I was 10 or 11 years old (shortly after it was released).
Yes, Northwest Passage Is P.I. with a big however.
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 Rambles: Northwest Passage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Northwest Passage, with it's better-than-average characterization, great story pacing and magnificent art work, is just the change I'm looking for.
One of the most captivating aspects of NorthWest Passage is Chantler's highly expressive animation-derived pencils.
Speaking of ticket prices, it's recommended for those who wouldn't watch just one specific type of movie, but enjoy many different cinematic genres.
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 Northwest Passage
I especially remembered the hardships and struggle the rangers had to go through to accomplish their mission.
There is no search of a Northwest Passage in the movie.
The screenwriters adapted the first half of the book about the rangers and there were plans to make a second movie to cover the second half of the book where there is a search for such a passage to the northwest of the future USA, but a second part was never made.
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 "Northwest Passage" (1958)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Northwest Passage's producers and writers drew their characters from the strongly-developed fictional personages of Kenneth Roberts' novel of the same name, set in US Revolutionary War times.
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 Northwest Passage (1940)
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Northwest Passage - Our records indicate this title is not available on Home Video.
Northwest Passage is a necessity for all American History lovers dvd collections.
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 Northwest Passage, Volume 2 - Television Classic Movies on DVD (1958) - Alpha Video : Oldies.com
Based on the book by Kenneth Roberts and the 1940 MGM movie starring Spencer Tracy, "Northwest Passage" chronicles the adventures of Major Robert Rogers (Keith Larsen) and his Rangers.
In a rare television series set during the French and Indian War (1754-1759), Major Rogers's Rangers vainly search for the mythical river passage across the country, battling with Indians or Frenchmen luckless enough to cross their paths.
Largely based on the 1940 movie, Keith Larsen replaces Spencer Tracy, Buddy Ebsen plays Walter Brennan's part, and Don Burnett steps in for Robert Young (who was busy on another soundstage in FATHER KNOWS BEST).
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 Movie Info for Northwest Passage on MSN Movies
Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor.
Together, the hundreds of Indian fighters under Rogers's aegis team up and chart their way through the wilderness, headed straight for St. Francis, the base of the French-supported Abenaki tribe, notorious for bloodily wiping out British-controlled colonies, after which they will forge the titular 'northwest passage' to the Pacific.
Nineteen years after its premiere, Northwest Passage later became an NBC TV series between 1959-60, starring Keith Larsen in the Tracy role, Buddy "Jed Clampett" Ebsen in the Brennan role, and Don Burnett in the Young role.
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 USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The "N" Listing of the Movie Reviews
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All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L. Office for Film and Broadcasting
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 Ottawa XPress - Film - Movie details - Northwest Passage
Spencer Tracy stars in this evocative film about Major Robert Rogers and the struggles of his men against the Abenakis and their French allies during the Seven Years' War.
One of Spencer's Better movies if not his best.
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 Northwest Passage (1940)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is great when you find an old movie that you have never seen before, and I have seen many.
This epic is one of broad scope and adventure, well balanced with good and evil aspects.
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 Northwest Passage movie info - dvds
Plot: Based on Kenneth Roberts's 1937 novel, this rousing tribute to Rogers' Rangers, a guerrilla unit attached to the British army during the French and Indian War, stars Spencer Tracy as the tough-minded Robert Rogers.
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 Northwest Passage movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Review: The lavish first half of a projected two-film package based on Kenneth Roberts' popular novel, depicting the troop of Rogers' Rangers fighting the wilderness and hostile Indians.
Beautifully produced; the second half was never made and the passage itself is never seen.
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 Northwest Passage News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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LOS ANGELES Apr 21, 2005, Ruth Hussey, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as James Stewart's wise-cracking girlfriend in 1940's "The Philadelphia Story," has died.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Northwest Passage : Main
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and exp...
It is perhaps not entirely surprising that over the decades Hollywood has made very few colonial adventures, but one of its more noteworthy forays into that underrepresen...
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Europa’s 6068 John Deere engine was serviced and upgraded, including a new starter, fuel-injection pump, heat exchanger, crankcase fume-recirculator, wet-exhaust system, injectors, as well as most belts and hoses.
My voyage along the Northwest Passage initially was intended to help me gain perspective on my life and help me navigate the changes that had occurred.
Ultimately, my personal Northwest Passage was just one of my many metaphorical buoy markers I had passed in my life.
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 Northwest Passage DVD Video $5.71 Movie and Northwest Passage Trailer plus Northwest Passage Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Northwest Passage DVD Video $5.71 Movie and Northwest Passage Trailer plus Northwest Passage Movie Review
The suspects in this crime are notorious troublemakers, the Wade Brothers, but the youngest brother, Dan, needs the Rangers' to help him prove his innocence."
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Rogers tells his men and all assembled in Portsmouth - including many British officers - that they are marching to Detroit, and from there to Oregon.
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 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Northwest Passage
The film is shot in splendid technicolor and the action is almost non-stop.
As history of the search for a northwest trade route, across North America, to the orient the film is pure pablum.
Based on one of Kenneth Roberts' enjoyable best sellers, the film has the hokiness and homespun humor one often finds in MGM's films of famous works.
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 TCM Movie Database
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 Northwest Passage (1940 c 126') (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Northwest Passage (1940 c 126') (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)
Based on the first part of a novel by Kenneth Roberts, Major Rogers leads his Rangers on a retaliatory raid against Indians, and they return starving.
The hardships arouse admiration for their endurance and courage but also indicate the unnecessary suffering that accompanies the fighting of dehumanized enemies in war.
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 Northwest Passage (1940) - Movie Reviews from TopTenReviews.com
They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each movie.
King Vidor’s Northwest Passage, a terrific adventure film that’s stood the test of time, follows the exploits of a ragtag group of soldiers called Roger’s Rangers during the French and Indian War.
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