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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Dusty Rivers: It will be when you get there.
April Logan: Oh, Dusty! You're an angel in leather!
Dusty Rivers: (laughs) I'd look funny in leather wings.
Dusty Rivers: I was pinned under a log so tight I was breathin' on the installment plan.
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One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
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.
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