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Northwest Mounted Police (1940)

Director(s) Cecil B. DeMille
Producer(s) Cecil B. DeMille, William LeBaron (uncredited), William H. Pine
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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Northwest Mounted Police Quotes:

Ronnie Logan: Listen you little wildcat, you're the only real thing that's ever happened to me. And nobody, nothing could ever make me let you go.
Louvette Corbeau: I love you so terrible bad I feel good.
April Logan: Texas must be heaven.
Dusty Rivers: It will be when you get there.
Dusty Rivers: You know, I-I kinda gotta feelin' that I could make things easier for ya if you'd let me.
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.
April Logan: Oh, Dusty! You're an angel in leather!
Dusty Rivers: (laughs) I'd look funny in leather wings.
Louis Riel: Blood will run like water.
Jacques Corbeau: You won't notice it much. The mounted police wear red coats.
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Northwest Mounted Police Facts
Joel McCrea was originally cast as Dusty Rivers, the part played by Gary Cooper.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
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.
"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.
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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