Northern Pursuit (1943)

NR11/07/1943Adventure, War, Drama1h 33m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Errol Flynn

    Corporal Steve Wagner

  2. Cast 1

    Julie Bishop

    Laura McBain

  3. Cast 1

    Helmut Dantine

    Colonel Hugo von Keller

  4. Cast 1

    Gene Lockhart

    Ernst Willis

  5. Cast 1

    John Ridgely

    Jim Austen

  6. Cast 1

    Tom Tully

    Inspector Barnett

  7. Cast 1

    Alec Craig

    Angus McBain

  8. Rose Higgins

    Rose Dagor (uncredited)

  9. Cast 1

    Bernard Nedell

    Tom Dagor

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 heroe...