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Northwest Passage

  • TV Series
  • 1958–19591958–1959
  • 25m
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7.8/10
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Northwest Passage (1958)
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Major Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explor... Read allMajor Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon... Read allMajor Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon Towne, a Harvard graduate who was the map maker. The episodes told the story of their tri... Read all
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  • Stars
    • Keith Larsen
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Don Burnett
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    • Keith Larsen
    • Buddy Ebsen
    • Don Burnett
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    Keith Larsen
    Keith Larsen
    • Major Robert Rogers
    26 episodes26 eps • 1958–1959
    Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen
    • Sergeant Hunk Marriner…
    26 episodes26 eps • 1958–1959
    Don Burnett
    Don Burnett
    • Ensign Langdon Towne…
    25 episodes25 eps • 1958–1959
    Philip Tonge
    Philip Tonge
    • General Amherst
    6 episodes6 eps • 1958–1959
    Lisa Gaye
    Lisa Gaye
    • Natula
    2 episodes2 eps • 1958
    Larry Chance
    Larry Chance
    • Black Wolf…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1958
    Charles Horvath
    Charles Horvath
    • Sailor Henchman…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1958
    Harry Lauter
    Harry Lauter
    • Ranger Mason
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Carole Mathews
    Carole Mathews
    • Lila Jason
    1 episode1 ep • 1959
    Denny Miller
    Denny Miller
    • Ranger Cooper
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Paul Fix
    Paul Fix
    • Joe Waters
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Adam Williams
    Adam Williams
    • Corporal Quill
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Bobby Clark
    • Jean Louis
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Jacques Aubuchon
    Jacques Aubuchon
    • Lieutenant Joseph Sarat
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Bruce Cowling
    Bruce Cowling
    • Sir Martin Stanley
    1 episode1 ep • 1958
    Taina Elg
    Taina Elg
    • Audrey Bonay
    1 episode1 ep • 1959
    Anne Gwynne
    Anne Gwynne
    • Sheila Stark
    1 episode1 ep • 1959
    Murvyn Vye
    Murvyn Vye
    • Matt Stacey
    1 episode1 ep • 1959
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      [opening narration]

      Narrator: This is a story of early America during the century of conflict between the British and their American colonies against the French and their Indian allies - when men and women, unknown to history, became giants in daring and endurance in their fight for a new country.

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      Edited into Frontier Rangers (1959)

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    Just to set the record straight......
    "Northwest Passage", a show which a TV Guide article of the time heralded as "When the West was in the East," sparked my interest in the French and Indian War. Although it was over 43 years ago, I do remember the specific 10-19-58 episode entitled "Break-Out" which viewer Dinky 4 mentions. Keith Larson as Major Rogers was not merely captured by "Bad Guys." He was captured by the French forces and as such, Rogers was a prisoner of war working on the road with the other POWs who would not even give their names, ranks, and serial numbers but instead insisted that they were all named "Smith." All knew that if the French knew they had Rogers as a prisoner, the Rangers would never be the same. Of course, great by the end of the episode, Rogers led his fellow POWs in a break-out. I assume that anyone who has seen either the Spencer Tracy movie of the same name or the TV series "Northwest Passage" will think of Major Robert Rogers as an American hero/founding father as well as the originator of The Army Rangers. But here's a bit of a true-history twist. Twenty years after fighting the French in the French and Indian War, Rogers returned to America from England to fight against the American colonists in the American Revolution.
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    • Release date
      • September 14, 1958 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Frontier rangers
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • MGM Television
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      25 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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