Northwest Passage (movie) - Definition

Northwest Passage is a 1940 movie starring Spencer Tracy.

It is set during the Seven Years' War in North America, and gives an account of an attack by Roger's Rangers on a village of the Abernakis, an American Indian tribe.

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.

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.