Northern Pursuit

Director: Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh

Overview

Set during WW II, this north-of-the-border adventure tells the tale of a loyal Canadian Mountie who mysteriously decides to reclaim his German heritage and help Nazi saboteurs make it through the wilderness to their secret operations base in Hudson Bay. Fortunately, everything is not as it seems.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/24/2018
UPC:	0888574658182
Original Release:	1943
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	32,470

Special Features

Warner Night at the Movies 1943 short subjects gallery: Vintage Newsreel; Wartime short The Rear Gunner; Musical short All-Star Melody Masters; Drama short Over the Wall; Classic cartoon Hop and Go; Trailers of Northern Pursuit and 1943's The Constant Nymph

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Errol Flynn	Steve Wagner
Julie Bishop	Laura McBain
Helmut Dantine	Col. Hugo von Keller
John Ridgely	Jim Austen
Gene Lockhart	Ernst
Tom Tully	Inspector Barnett
Bernard Nedell	Dagor
Warren Douglas	Sergeant
Monte Blue	Jean
Alec Craig	Angus McBain
Tom Fadden	Hobby
Carl Harbaugh	Radio Operator
Glen Cavender	Workman
Fred Kelsey	Conductor
Herbert Heywood	Farmer
Ben Erway	Immigration Officer
Robert Ashley	German Ski Trooper
Robert Dayne	German Ski Trooper
Cliff Storey	German Ski Trooper
Eddie Searles	German Ski Trooper
Arno Frey	Submarine Captain
Pat Moriarity	Recruiting Sergeant
Jimmie Dugan	Mountie
John Alvin	Orderly
Martin Noble	German Cook
John Forsythe	Soldier
Robert Kent	Soldier
Sam Waagenaar	German Assistant Cook
Richard Allord	Preisser
Clay Martin	Nazi Soldier
Bob Gary	Nazi Soldier
Hugh Prosser	Corporal
Milton Kibbee	Hotel Clerk,Actor
George Kirby	Hotel Clerk
Russell Hicks	Chief Inspector
Charles Marsh	Man in Camel Hair Coat
Arthur Gould-Porter	Little Man on Train
Wallis Clark	Judge
James Farley	Turnkey
Ken Christy	Warden
Paul Irving	Lawyer
George Sherwood	Ticket Seller
Bill Kennedy	Mountie
Richard E. Allen	Heinzmann
George Lynn	Johnson the Mountie
Rose Higgins	Alice
Guy Kingsford	Campbell the Mountie
James Millican	Army Driver
Joe Herrera	Indian
Jay Silverheels	Indian
George Urchell	Indian
Joe Haworth	Mountie
James Dugan	Mounty
John Royce	German Aviator
Robert Hutton	Guard
Lester Matthews	Colonel

Technical Credits

Raoul Walsh	Director
Jack Chertok	Producer
Roy Davidson	Special Effects
James Leicester	Special Effects
Don Siegel	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Northern Pursuit is an okay adventure yarn/spy thriller -- nothing great, made up mostly of bits and pieces we've all seen before, but put together professionally and with just enough spirit to make it entertaining. With Errol Flynn on hand, you know that the lead character will evince sufficient charm and sufficient derring-do, but at the same time there's simply something disconcerting about seeing Flynn as a Mountie. It just doesn't seem natural, and that impression dogs the whole film. Very much a product of its day, modern viewers may find its heavyhanded depictions of the Nazis a bit much to swallow; they're drawn too much as stock screen villains, evil personified, and it's difficult to view them without thinking they could have been shown to be just as evil in a less stereotypical manner. That said, Helmut Dantine's performance as the particularly nasty Nazi is exactly what the screenplay calls for; he delivers a performance that's memorably vile. Less memorable is Julie Bishop, who as the love interest looks attractive but adds little in the way of a dramatic performance. Raoul Walsh directs with an eye toward the adventure elements and provides enough tension and suspense to help one leap over some of the holes in the screenplay.