FILMS & PLAYERS
Filmed entirely in technicolour, “Northwest Passage” comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday with Spencer Tracy in his most virile role. Robert Young, Walter Brennan and Ruth Hussey are outstanding in important parts. The picture follows Kenneth Roberts’ best-selling novel with surprising faithfulness. Director King Vidor has caught the spirit of Roberts’ pages in
such thrilling scenes as the Rangers carrying huge whaleboats over a mountain top, hurling themselves through miles of swamps, crossing a river torrent by forming a human chain, wiping out an Indian village ‘by a surprise attack and then battling their way, starving and battered, back to safety. The result is one of the greatest dramas ever filmed.
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Southland Times, Issue 24422, 30 April 1941, Page 8
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114FILMS & PLAYERS Southland Times, Issue 24422, 30 April 1941, Page 8
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