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Why do they pull the boats over the mountains?
the Indian village of St. Francis, whose inhabitants have been making devastating raids on New England villages. Langdon is to be Rogers' map-maker, and the leader is glad to learn that the young man is familiar with the Northwest Passage, a mythical short-cut waterway to the wealth of the Indies.
The two hundred Rangers, forced to abandon their boats in avoiding their French enemies, proceed on foot. Taking to the swamps, they fight their way through the wilderness for twenty-two days, lacking fires and hot food.
Their mission accomplished, the return journey is even more terrible. Langdon is seriously wounded, but is aided by a white captive, Jennie Cort (Isabel Jewell) and an Indian boy, Billy (Lawrence Porter). The band is split up and more men are lost. At Lake Memphremagog, where they expected to find food, they discover the French
instead. Eventually the emaciated, haggard survivors arrive at Fort Wentworth, only to find it abandoned. Their situation is at its most desperate when Gen. Amherst finally arrives with a relief party. Back in Portsmouth, Rogers and his men are hailed as heroes, but the Major is already planning another and more dangerous expedition to the Northwest. As he leaves, Langdon remarks to Elizabeth: "But he'll be with us — no matter where we are, or he may be — for that man will never die. ' '
V. THE MAKING OF THE FILM
When Northwest Passage was purchased for the screen, the search began immediately for the locale which should most resemble the country around Lake Champlain and the Indian village of St. Francis. The site had to contain, within a reasonably small radius, lakes, rivers, swamps, forests, and moun