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King Vidor directs this epic Western, starring Tracy as Major Robert Rogers, the tough frontiersman who led a gruelling expedition to Canada in 1759 to punish a fearsome Indian tribe and seek a northwest passage to the Pacific.

Keywords:

Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western, History, Based-on-Novel, Based-on-True-Story, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1940) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Spencer Tracy	.... Maj. Robert Rogers
Robert S. Young	.... Langdon Towne
Walter Brennan	.... Hunk Marriner
Ruth Hussey	.... Elizabeth Browne
Nat Pendleton	.... Cap Huff
Louis Hector	.... Rev. Browne

Supporting Cast:

Robert Barrat	.... Humphrey Towne
Lumsden Hare	.... Lord Amherst
Donald MacBride	.... Sgt. McNott
Isabel Jewell	.... Jennie Coit
Douglas Walton	.... Lt. Avery
Addison Richards	.... Lt. Crofton
Hugh Sothern	.... Jesse Beacham
Regis Toomey	.... Webster
Montagu Love	.... Wiseman Clagett

Directors:

King Vidor

Writers:

Talbot Jennings
Kenneth Roberts