Northwest Passage: Book 1, Rogers’ Rangers (MGM, 1940)

  Protowestern a bit of a plodder   MGM rather missed the boat (or the stagecoach anyway) in 1939 when the big-budget adult Western suddenly became fashionable again at the end of the 1930s and the other major studios released A-pictures in the genre. Fox started things in January ’39, releasing its Technicolor blockbuster Jesse […]