• Director: King Vidor
  • Release Year: 1940
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

Northwest Passage

Description

After destroying a Native American village and planning to resupply at a nearby fort, the Rangers discover that not only is the fort abandoned, but there are no supplies left. The men are forced to march over the mountains to yet another fort, fighting French patrols and their own hunger on the way, only to find when they arrive that the next fort has also been deserted and stripped of its supplies.

Themes

Robert Rogers (1731 – 1795), Rogers' Rangers, British Army, French and Indian War (1754 – 1763), Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763), Native Americans, First Nations, British America and the British West Indies (1607 – 1783), Frontiers, Individualism, Kingdom of France (843 – 1791), Exploitation, Stereotypes, Legends and mythologies, Nostalgia, Literature, French Colonial Empire (1534 — 1946)