North West Mounted Police (film)
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | R. C. Fetherstonhaugh (novel The Royal Canadian Mounted Police) (uncredited) Alan Le May Jesse Lasky, Jr. C. Gardner Sullivan |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Paulette Goddard Madeleine Carroll Preston Foster |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Cinematography | W. Howard Greene Victor Milner |
| Editing by | Anne Bauchens |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 1940 |
| Running time | 125 minutes[1] |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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North West Mounted Police was Cecil B. DeMille's first film in Technicolor, released by Paramount Pictures in 1940. Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, the film tells the story of a Texas Ranger, played by Gary Cooper, who joins forces with the North West Mounted Police to put down a rebellion. There are two heroines, portrayed by Paulette Goddard and Madeleine Carroll. Also appearing in the film are Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Preston Foster, Lon Chaney Jr., and Lynne Overman. DeMille narrated portions of the story, a practice he followed in all of his Technicolor films, except for the 1958 version of The Buccaneer, in which he, visibly frail at the time due to an ultimately terminal illness, appeared only in the prologue.[2]
The film has been released on home video by Paramount.
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[edit] Plot
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Cooper) is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau (Bancroft), arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan (Madeleine Carroll) and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt (Preston Foster). Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.
Meanwhile, April's brother, Ronnie Logan (Robert Preston), who also is a Mountie, is in love with Corbeau's daughter, Louvette (Paulette Goddard). Louvette loves Ronnie intensely and is determined to protect Ronnie in the coming fight at all costs, using Ronnie's feelings for her for her father's benefit at times.
Corbeau is eventually tracked down to his hideout. When the showdown between Dusty, the Mounties, and the supporters of Corbeau finally arrives, Louvette tricks Ronnie, and ties him to a chair to keep him safe, after he had given her information vital to the Mounties' planned attack on the outlaws. Ronnie is unable to warn his fellow Mounties and Rivers that they are riding into a trap. The lawmen are ambushed, but Ronnie is eventually able to escape and help to turn the tide of the battle, though he is killed, as are Corbeau and Louvette.
Afterwards, Dusty Rivers is set to return to Texas, but asks April to join him as his wife. Jim gives them his blessing.
[edit] Cast
- Gary Cooper as Dusty Rivers
- Madeleine Carroll as April Logan
- Paulette Goddard as Louvette Corbeau
- Preston Foster as Sergeant Jim Brett
- Robert Preston as Ronnie Logan
- George Bancroft as Jacques Corbeau
- Lynne Overman as Tod McDuff
- Akim Tamiroff as Dan Duroc
- Walter Hampden as Big Bear
- Lon Chaney, Jr. as Shorty
- Montagu Love as Inspector Cabot
- Francis McDonald as Louis Riel
- George E. Stone as Johnny Pelang
- Willard Robertson as Supt. Harrington
- Regis Toomey as Constable Jerry Moore
- Richard Denning as Constable Thornton
[edit] References
- ^ Martin, Mick and Porter, Marsha. Video Movie Guide. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. ISBN 0-34542-099-3.
- ^ American Movie Classics
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