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are vitally important. Also technicolor gives us the vivid brilliance of the Indian war paint, the protective coloration of the Rangers' green uniforms, the dull red of the fires in St. Francis.
The script follows the book closely. Only in the love story of Langdon Towne and Elizabeth Browne is there any change. Instead of her fickle refusal of Langdon and her marriage to Major Roberts, she appears loyal to Langdon. Marriner is made one 'of the heroes of the expedition instead of meeting the horrible accident at the beginning, as he did in the book. We are really grateful for this change, as his picturesque personality is a distinct addition. However, the romantic interpolation seems rather forced.
IV. SYNOPSIS OF
NORTHWEST PASSAGE
(Book I — Rogers' Rangers)
When Langdon Towne (Robert Young), of Kittery, Maine, is ex
pelled from Harvard College for his impudent cartoons lampooning the bad food and intolerant overseers, his own family are sympathetic. Langdon has always wanted to be an artist, but Elizabeth Browne (Ruth Hussey), the girl he plans to marry, and her father, the Rev. Browne (Louis Hector), refuse to encourage such an ambition.
Embittered by the turn of events, Langdon, in tavern conversation, becomes derogatory about several of the "better people" of the colonies. Overheard, he and his old friend, backwoodsman Hunk Marriner* (Walter Brennan), are forced to flee. At a tavern at the Dunbarton Crossroads they meet Major Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy), who is trying to sober up a drunken Indian guide, John Konkapot (Andrew Pena). When the effects of the rum have worn off, Langdon and Hunk find themselves "enlisted" in Rogers' Rangers, a hardy band of Indian fighters.
At once they set out to destroy