Northwest Passage is a 1940 movie, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, and others. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Image:ST3. ... Robert Young (February 22, 1907 - July 21, 1998) was a popular American actor, who was the son of an Irish immigrant father and an American-born mother. ... Walter Brennan Walter Brennan, (born 25 July 1894 in Swampscott, Massachusetts; died 21 September 1974 in Oxnard, California) was a veteran character actor, notably in westerns. ... Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an actress born in Providence, Rhode Island. ...

It is set during the French and Indian War (as the Seven Years' War in North America is usually known in the US). It gives an account of an attack by Rogers' Rangers on St Francis, a settlement of the Abenakis, an American Indian tribe. The purpose of the raid is to revenge the many attacks on British settlers and reduce the capability of the warriors of the village from carrying out future attacks. The French and Indian War is the American name for the decisive nine-year conflict (1754-1763) in North America between Great Britain and France, which was one of the theatres of the Seven Years War. ... The Seven Years War (1754 and 1756–1763) pitted Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Rogers Rangers were a group of colonial militia that fought for the British during the French and Indian War. ... The Abenakis a confederation of Algonquin tribes, comprising the Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, Norridgewocks, and others, formerly occupying what is now Maine, and southern New Brunswick. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

The title is something of a misnomer, since this film is a truncated version of the original story, and only at the end do we find that Rogers and his men are about to go on a search for the Northwest Passage. Robert Rogers (8 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was born to James and Mary Rogers on November 18, 1731, in Methuen, a small town in northeastern Massachusetts. ... Popular Northwest Passage routes through the Canadian archipelago This article describes the route through the Canadian Arctic. ...

The main problem with the film is its racist treatment of the American Indians, rather extreme even by the standards of Hollywood at the time. An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. ... A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, about 1908 Native Americans â€“ also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Indigenous Peoples of America, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerind, Native Canadians (or of other nations) â€“ are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization and... ...

The film is based on a novel by Kenneth Roberts, also called "Northwest Passage." DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885-1957) was an American author of carefully researched historical novels. ... Northwest Passage is a well-researched historical novel by Kenneth Roberts, published in 1937. ...