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North West Mounted Police (1940)
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Overview
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April’s brother is involved with Courbeau’s daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Rated NR | Length 126 minutes
Actors
Gary Cooper | Madeleine Carroll | Paulette Goddard | Preston Foster | Robert Preston | Akim Tamiroff | George Bancroft | Lynne Overman | Walter Hampden | Lon Chaney Jr. | Montagu Love | Francis McDonald | George E. Stone | Willard Robertson | Regis Toomey | Richard Denning | Douglas Kennedy | Robert Ryan | James Seay | Lane Chandler | Ralph Byrd | Eric Alden | Wallace Reid Jr. | Bud Geary | Jack Pennick | Rod Cameron | Davison Clark | Jack Chapin | Chief Thundercloud | Harry Burns | Lou Merrill | Clara Blandick | Ynez Seabury | Eva Puig | Julia Faye | Sam Ash | Earl Askam | Douglas Bates | John Beach | Chief John Big Tree | Cecil B. DeMille | Donald Curtis | Jack Rube Clifford | Anthony Caruso | Franklyn Farnum | Evan Thomas | Monte Blue | Dick Botiller | Ed Brady | Jack Byron | Steve Carruthers | Sonny Chorre | Russ Clark | Irene Coleman | Delmar Costello | Sidney D'Albrook | Joe De La Cruz | Jerome de Nuccio | Clay De Roy | David Dunbar | Jimmie Dundee | Fred Farrell | Al Ferguson | James Flavin | Jerry Frank | Constant Franke | William Haade | Eddie Hall | Chuck Hamilton | John Hart | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Weldon Heyburn | Bob Ireland | Soledad Jiménez | Noble Johnson | Jane Keckley | Frank Lackteen | Ethan Laidlaw | John Laing | Ameda Lambert | Larry Lawson | Jack Luden | George Magrill | Mala | Fred Malatesta | Ted Mapes | Alphonse Martell | Tony Martelli | Francisco Marán | Carl Mathews | Kermit Maynard | Tony Merlo | John Merton | Edith Mills | Louis Natheaux | Norma Gene Nelson | David Newell | Paul Newlan | Jimmy O'Gatty | Ted Oliver | Nestor Paiva | Emory Parnell | Tony Paton | James Pierce | Albert Pollet | John Power | Alonzo Price | Tex Rand | George Regas | Pedro Regas | Cyril Ring | Dick Rush | Jack Rutherford | Hector V. Sarno | Harry Semels | Walter Shumway | Teet Smith | Charles Soldani | Robert St. Angelo | Charles Stevenson | Paul Sutton | Colin Tapley | Phillip Terry | Chief Thunderbird | Archie Twitchell | Foy Van Dolsen | Harry J. Vejar | Billy Wilkerson | Charlene Wyatt | Chief Yowlachie