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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Overland Trail (1960)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.