North West Mounted Police (film)

North West Mounted Police is a 1940 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll. Written by Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky, Jr., and C. Gardner Sullivan, and based on the 1938 novel The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, the film is about a Texas Ranger who joins forces with the NorthWest Mounted Police to put down a rebellion in the northwest prairies of Canada. The supporting cast features Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney, Jr. and George Bancroft. Regis Toomey, Richard Denning and Robert Ryan make brief appearances in the film playing small roles..

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers Gary Cooper is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau George Bancroft, arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan Madeleine Carroll and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt Preston Foster. Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.Meanwhile, Aprils brother, Ronnie Logan Robert Preston, who also is a Mountie, is in love with Corbeaus daughter, Louvette Paulette Goddard. Louvette loves Ronnie intensely and is determined to protect Ronnie in the coming fight at all costs, using Ronnies feelings for her fathers benefit at times. ........

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