Northern Pursuit

Watch: Northern Pursuit

Unrated

11/13/19431h 33m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ A woman's lips set the frozen north aflame. ~

Overview:

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Key words:

canada
submarine
nazi
espionage
secret mission
spy
world war ii
murder
snow
sabotage
sled dogs
avalanche
undercover operation
fiancé fiancée relationship
home front
held hostage
mine shaft
royal canadian mounted police (mountie)
abandoned mine
luftwaffe
native canadian
canadian wilderness
canadian concentration camp
german prisoners of war
counter-espionage

Cast

Errol Flynn

~ as ~

Corporal Steve Wagner

Julie Bishop

~ as ~

Laura McBain

Helmut Dantine

~ as ~

Colonel Hugo von Keller

Gene Lockhart

~ as ~

Ernst Willis

John Ridgely

~ as ~

Jim Austen

Tom Tully

~ as ~

Inspector Barnett

Alec Craig

~ as ~

Angus McBain

Rose Higgins

~ as ~

Rose Dagor (uncredited)

Bernard Nedell

~ as ~

Tom Dagor

Tom Drake

~ as ~

Heinzmann (uncredited)

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Reviews (1)

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talisencrw
Written 8 year(s) ago
8
Basically 'Errol Flynn vs. the Nazis, Round 3' Battleground: Canada

Being myself a Canadian, I was thrilled to find in my 'TCM Spotlight: Errol Flynn Adventures' (five films made during WWII in which Errol Flynn battles the Nazis) a film helmed by one of my favourite American directors of the period, in Raoul Walsh, with Flynn starring as a RCMP officer (typically called 'Mountie') making sure the Nazis can't succeed in their quest to sneak into Canada and, there, create another front in their quest to bring hell on Earth. As a child, I loved his rendition of one of my very favourite heroes (Robin Hood), and lately I quite enjoyed seeing the ill-starred (dying at 50 [again in Canada] from a heart attack brought on by chronic alcoholism) native Australian who was perhaps the second-most alluring male thespian of all-time, behind the equally ill-fated Rudolph Valentino, in an audacious TCM 4-pack of outstanding adventure movies, such as 'Captain Blood' and 'The Sea Hawk', and an equally intriguing 4-pack of Westerns he made as his star began to wane.

This doesn't disappoint, as Walsh directs, just like he always does, with an appealing eye and a talent for setting up suspense and excitement. Highly recommended to either fans of Flynn, war films or of cinema from the period.