Northwest Passage 08/13/24

Want to follow Spencer Tracy in search of the elusive Northwest Passage?  Not in this movie!  Taken from American history and treated like gospel, Kenneth Roberts’ story gives us Spencer Tracy as a colonial ‘special forces’ Major whose troop marches hundred of miles to wipe out an Indian encampment near the Canadian border … it’s the Apocalypse Now of 1940. MGM’s gigantic production lugged giant Technicolor cameras all over Oregon and Idaho under the direction of famed director King Vidor. Robert Young is the artist who becomes a guerilla fighter; the whole movie plays like propaganda to prepare American boys to fight Nazis. The digital Technicolor restoration is excellent. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.

08/13/24