North West Mounted Police DVD, 1940

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MovieMail's Review

MovieMail exclusive - Rick Burin rides with the Mounties in a Cecil B. DeMille jaunt full of broad characterisations, explosive action, sexual treachery and imperialist tub-thumping.

North West Mounted Police could only have been created by one filmmaker.

Full of half-remembered truths, enthusiastic embellishments, broad characterisations, explosive action sequences, sexual treachery, imperialist tub-thumping and sentiment so thick you could pitch a flag in it, it is unmistakably the work of Cecil B. DeMille.

Gary Cooper, surely the epitome of the Golden Age star, is cast as Dusty Rivers, a Texas Ranger on the trail of a murderous revolutionary (former silent leading man George Bancroft).

Cooper was a delightful performer, and he’s in his element here. Laconic, guileless and still charmingly boyish, he creates moments of quiet levity through a largely unheralded gift for comedy and – when the occasion demands – elicits goose bumps thanks to a beguiling sincerity.

Really though, the movie is just great fun, with jaw-dropping stunt work, a gaggle of eclectic set-pieces, sumptuous Technicolor cinematography shot on location in the Canadian Rockies – and a simply extraordinary supporting cast.

Rick Burin on 1st October 2010
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Film Information

Director - Cecil B. DeMille

Produced - 1940

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - American film

Cast - Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr.

DVD Details

Certificate:	PG	Publisher:	Odeon Entertainment	Region:	2
Length:	120 mins	Cat No:	ODNF217
Format:	DVD Colour

Film Description

Cecil B. DeMille's first film in Technicolor, North West Mounted Police was filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, and tells the story of a Texas Ranger, played by Gary Cooper, who joins forces with the North West Mounted Police to put down a rebellion. Paulette Goddard and Madeleine Carroll co-star.