---
title: 'Northwest Passage (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'King Vidor'
released: '1940-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 125
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/northwest-passage-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032851/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Northwest Passage (1940)

1940 · 125 min · Drama, Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

Northwest Passage, also billed as Northwest Passage , is a 1940 American film in Technicolor, directed by King Vidor. It stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan and Ruth Hussey. The film is set in 1759, and tells a partly fictionalized version of the real-life St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers, led by Robert Rogers on the primarily Abenaki village of St. Francis, in modern-day Canada. The screenplay, by Laurence Stallings and Talbot Jennings, is based on the 1937 historical novel Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts.

## Credits

- **Director:** [King Vidor](https://cinepixo.com/people/king-vidor), [Jack Conway](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-conway), [W. S. Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-van-dyke)
- **Screenplay:** [King Vidor](https://cinepixo.com/people/king-vidor), [Bruno Frank](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-frank), [Kenneth Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-roberts), [Jane Murfin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-murfin), [Frances Marion](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-marion), [Conrad Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrad-richter), [Sidney Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-howard), [Noel Langley](https://cinepixo.com/people/noel-langley), [Robert E. Sherwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-e-sherwood)

## Cast

- [Tom London](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-london) as Ranger
- [Robert Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-young-2) as Langdon Towne
- [Isabel Jewell](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabel-jewell) as Jennie Coit
- [Ruth Hussey](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-hussey) as Elizabeth Browne
- [Addison Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/addison-richards) as Lieutenant Crofton
- [Lester Matthews](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-matthews) as Sam Livermore
- [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat) as Humphrey Towne
- [Walter Brennan](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-brennan) as Hunk Marriner
- [Donald MacBride](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-macbride) as Sergeant McNott
- [Louis Hector](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-hector) as Reverend Browne
- [Montagu Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/montagu-love) as Wiseman Clagett
- [Regis Toomey](https://cinepixo.com/people/regis-toomey) as Webster
- [Truman Bradley](https://cinepixo.com/people/truman-bradley) as Captain Ogden
- [Lumsden Hare](https://cinepixo.com/people/lumsden-hare) as Lord Amherst
- [Douglas N. Walton](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-n-walton) as Lieutenant Avery

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/northwest-passage-1940
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