Northwest Passage (1958)

Genre

Westerns on television

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It is a 1950s TV series about Major Robert Rogers leading a unit during the French and Indian War. The story follows Rogers and his men as they navigate wilderness conflicts and a search for a route to the Pacific.

adventuroushistoricalruggedearnestbriskoutdoorromanticizedaction-oriented

What happens

Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War (1756–63). Jacques Tourneur, George Waggner, Alan Grossland. JR were the main directors. It was broadcast from September 14, 1958, to September 8, 1959, on NBC. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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