Northwest Mounted Police (1940) | |
| Director(s) | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Producer(s) | Cecil B. DeMille, William H. Pine (associate), William LeBaron (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Romance, Western |
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Northwest Mounted Police Overview:
Northwest Mounted Police (1940) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, William LeBaron and William H. Pine.
SYNOPSIS
History according to DeMille and his first excursion into Technicolor. This carefully manicured action-adventure takes place in the deep forests and expansive mountains of the Canadian Northwest (really a pine forest built by DeMille on the Paramount backlot). The Canadian Riel Rebellion, an uprising by half-breed rebels and Indians, rages in the background as Texas Ranger Cooper comes looking for murderer Bancroft. He moves in with the red-coated Mounted Police and attracts the attention of both Mountie Foster's girl Carroll and the half-breed temptress Goddard.
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April Logan: You're a grand person, Dusty, but there ain't anything anyone can do for me.
Dusty Rivers: Sure there is. Come to Texas with me. You're the loveliest and gentlest lady I've ever known.
[Louvette betrays Ronnie to the rebels]
Ronnie Logan: You crawling black scum! You sneaking she-wolf! You dirty squaw! I'll kill you when I get loose!
Ronnie Logan: [Lovesick mountie Ronnie Logan falls hard for femme fatale Louvette Corbeau, who is secretly in league with the revolutionaries] You're the sweetest poison that ever got into a man's blood. I love you. I *want* you! Listen, you little wildcat, you're the only real thing that's ever happened to me. A nobody... nothing... could ever make me let go of you!
Louvette Corbeau: Oh, I love you so terrible bad I feel good! My heart sings like a bird!
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Facts about
Gatling Guns really were used at Fish Creek, Cutknife Hill and Batoche during the rebellion on which this story is very loosely based. But the federal government were trying them out "on approval". One gun's operator was a Gatling company agent, and also a captain of the Connecticut National Guard.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onApril 13, 1942 with Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard and Preston Foster reprising their film roles.
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