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* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism. It was likely made in part to rally men to fight overseas in World War II.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism. It was likely made in part to rally men to fight overseas in World War II.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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The year is 1759. Langdon Towne (Creator/RobertYoung), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (a green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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The year is 1759. Langdon Towne (Creator/RobertYoung), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (a green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War [[UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar French and Indian War]] and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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''Northwest Passage'' (Full title ''Northwest Passage Book I: Rogers' Rangers'') is a 1940 film directed by Creator/KingVidor, based on the 1937 novel by Kenneth Roberts.
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''Northwest Passage'' (Full title (full title: ''Northwest Passage Book I: Rogers' Rangers'') is a 1940 film directed by Creator/KingVidor, based on the 1937 novel by Kenneth Roberts.
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The year is 1759. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), (Creator/RobertYoung), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A (a green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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* CreatorBacklash: Kenneth Roberts hated the movie so much for the liberties it took that he refused to sell any more of his work to Hollywood for over a decade.
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* CreatorBacklash: Kenneth Roberts hated the movie so much for the liberties it took that he refused to sell any more of his work to Hollywood for over a decade.
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* BadassInCharge: The film's depiction of Rogers.
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* TheChessmaster: Shortly after meeting them and treating them to drinks, Rogers leaves Towne and Marriner unconscious by a tree outside Fort Crown so he can convince them to join Rogers' Rangers.
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* TheChessmaster: Shortly after meeting them and treating them to drinks, Rogers leaves Towne and Marriner unconscious by a tree outside Fort Crown Point so he can convince them to join Rogers' Rangers.
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* DawnOfTheWildWest: Most of the action takes place in the wilderness of western New York during the French-Indian War.
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* DawnOfTheWildWest: Most of the action takes place in the wilderness of western New York during the French-Indian War.
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* TheChessmaster: Shortly after meeting them and treating them to drinks, Rogers leaves Towne and Marriner unconscious by a tree outside Fort Crown so he can convince them to join Rogers' Rangers.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on a fictionalisation of a series of accounts which may or may not be accurate.
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* ExpositionDiagram: Towne's diagram of the fabled "Northwest Passage" is part of what causes himself and Marriner to be recruited into Rogers' Rangers in the first place.
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* UnwantedRescue: The two women captured by the Abenaki's don't actually want to be rescued.
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* EpicMovie: A large scale saga of the French-Indian War.
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* EpicMovie: A An expensive, large scale saga of the French-Indian War.
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* SequelHook: The movie's ending shows Rogers' Rangers marching off to find the Northwest Passage. However, a sequel was never produced.
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The year is 1795. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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The year is 1795.1759. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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* YouAllMeetInAnInn: How Towne and Marriner meet Rogers.
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* YouAllMeetInAnInn: How Towne and Marriner meet Rogers.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Towne after his girlfriend's father scorns him. This causes him to make drunken disparaging comments about Claggett which he can hear in the next room.
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* WarIsHell: For the most part, the film doesn't sugarcoat the life of a Rogers' Ranger, though this is mixed in with WarIsGlorious. Additionally, very few soldiers are plagued with disease.
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The year is 1795. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Walter Brennan).(Creator/WalterBrennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
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* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy. Rogers' also appears to have recruited Towne partially to convince him of this view.
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* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy. Rogers' also appears to have recruited Towne partially to convince him of this view. Additionally, the film condones the slurs directed towards the Rangers' Mohawk allies.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism. It was likely made in part to rally men to fight overseas in World War II.
* EpicMovie: A large scale saga of the French-Indian War.
* HeroicBSOD: As soon as Rogers reaches Fort Wentworth and finds it abandoned, he collapses against a beam and cries. He pulls himself together quickly once his men reach him.
* EpicMovie: A large scale saga of the French-Indian War.
* HeroicBSOD: As soon as Rogers reaches Fort Wentworth and finds it abandoned, he collapses against a beam and cries. He pulls himself together quickly once his men reach him.
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* TitleDrop: The title is mentioned a few times, at the beginning, when they meet Rogers, and at the end, when Rogers' Rangers set off to find it.
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stereotype. This isn't helped by the fact that the real Rogers was an UnreliableNarrator, for publishing biased accounts of his raid on the Abenakis.
* BadassInCharge: The film's depiction of Rogers.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Elizabeth Crowne, Towne's girlfriend, who has only a couple of scenes with very thin characterization.
* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy. Rogers' also appears to have recruited Towne partially to convince him of this view.
* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy. Rogers' also appears to have recruited Towne partially to convince him of this view.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Rogers' Rangers spare the women and children after their raid on the Abenakis' camp.
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* BritishStuffiness: The Redcoats are presented this way, even though the main characters in the film are all British.
* DecoyProtagonist: Towne and Marriner. The story actually focuses on Rogers.
* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism.
* SanitySlippage: Crofton, who is seen [[spoiler: eating an Abenaki man's head]]
* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy.
* WarIsHell: For the most part, the film doesn't sugarcoat the life of a Rogers' Ranger, though this is mixed in with WarIsGlorious. Additionally, very few soldiers are plagued with disease.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: How Towne and Marriner meet Rogers.
* BritishStuffiness: The Redcoats are presented this way, even though the main characters in the film are all British.
* DecoyProtagonist: Towne and Marriner. The story actually focuses on Rogers.
* {{Eagleland}}: Though the characters are British, the film paints a glorifying picture of American exceptionalism.
* SanitySlippage: Crofton, who is seen [[spoiler: eating an Abenaki man's head]]
* TheSavageIndian: The Abenakis are depicted as [[IAmAHumanitarian savage cannibals]] who tear their enemies to pieces and scalp everyone, and the Mohawks are depicted as lazy and untrustworthy.
* WarIsHell: For the most part, the film doesn't sugarcoat the life of a Rogers' Ranger, though this is mixed in with WarIsGlorious. Additionally, very few soldiers are plagued with disease.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: How Towne and Marriner meet Rogers.
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'''Northwest Passage''' (Full title '''Northwest Passage Book I: Rogers' Rangers''') is a 1940 film directed by Creator/KingVidor, based on the 1937 novel by Kenneth Roberts.
The year is 1795. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Walter Brennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
The film is infamous for perpetuating TheSavageIndian stereotype.
The year is 1795. Langdon Towne (Robert Young), an aspiring artist, is kicked out of Harvard Law School for doing an offensive cartoon of the King's attorney, Wiseman Claggett. After ranting about Claggett in the tavern, not knowing that Claggett is in the next room, he gets into trouble with the attorney and goes on the run with his friend Hunk Marriner (Walter Brennan). Eventually, they come to a tavern where they meet Captain Robert Rogers (A green-clad Creator/SpencerTracy) who gang-presses them into joining Rogers' Rangers, fighting in the French-Indian War and destroying the Abenakis tribe, after he learns that Towne is an excellent cartographer and knows about the elusive "Northwest Passage".
The film is infamous for perpetuating TheSavageIndian stereotype.
