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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Northern PursuitThe reason Canadians didn't fight the Japanese during WWII was because they had them all locked in internment camps.And while Japanese-Canadians were never a threat, the axis members in this action movie were.RCMP Corporal Wagner (Errol Flynn) and his partner (John Ridgely) capture a Nazis Colonel (Helmut Dantine).On discovering Cpl. Wagner is of German ancestry, Herr Colonel asks him to join him. Later, when the Colonel escapes, Cpl. Wagner does.Together, with Native guides, they recover a German bomber that had been stashed in northern Manitoba before the war.Now, the only person who can stop Jerry from air-bombarding Canadian waterways is the two-timing Mountie, who's been working undercover.Using Idaho's snowcapped mountains to represent the prairie terrain of the Keystone Province, Northern Pursuit is a geographical joke. Fortunately, its spy-thriller theatrics are entertaining.Besides, how can the world's top two beer consuming countries not get along?Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.com

Nobody ever accused Errol Flynn of being an Oscar caliber actor but...if you see the roles he was offered...like this one, you can see why. This film is so heavy on propaganda it permeates you pretty quickly.The plot outline is a group of Nazi soldiers are infiltrating the Northern Canadian wilderness to make their way to a secret abandoned mine where they have secretly throughout the years been hoarding airplane and bomb parts. Their mission? To rebuild this plane and drop the bombs on the main shipping route from North America to the UK. Their problem? They get caught, then escape and have to use Errol Flynn to get to where they wanna go. They don't have the skills to get there. They need a guide basically.Most of this film is just full of "yeah right" moments. First off, the Nazi soldiers they choose in this one all happen to be expert skiers and expert plane builders and expert bomb builders all-in-one? Gimme a break. Of course they don't say that in the film but when you see all these soldiers can accomplish you'd think..."wow...these guys were prepared". Nobody is that prepared. If they were that prepared why did they need the Errol Flynn character to get them to the hideout? They should have known how to get there.The main issue in this film is the absolute nastiness of the main Nazi character. He's just vicious. Everything he says is a lie yet everyone trusts him or believes him. Every Nazi character in this is beyond reproach. Not a single one has any redeeming qualities. In all the scenes of killing, not a single one needed to be killed but for high propaganda factor, they kill every one. Needless and senseless. Why in the world would these soldiers do this if they knew they were being chased/followed by the law? Why draw attention to yourself? Every Canadian Law Enforcement/Mountie is looking around for them and they just kill whoever. It's just stupid.By the end of this film, if you just disliked Nazi's only a little, you'll absolutely hate them with a passion. I mean the propaganda is so heavy you'll wanna take a shower to wash it offa you. Obviously this film was made to boost American morale and help the war effort and to let the masses know, we were fighting for the right cause. There are far better films to give you a better viewing experience. If you wanna see an obvious one, try The 49th Parallel. It was made 2 years before this. See it then see this and you'll say.."hmmm...seems very similar". A pretty obvious takeoff yet it has a few different twists to it. For others try Battleground or Passage to Marseille or Night Train to Munich. An even better example would be Edge of Darkness. Errol Flynn was also in this one but the story and characters are far more believable.Not a bad film, just not a very good one.

The eyes of Helmut Dantine and Errol Flynn tell the entire story in this 1943 thriller. Both men know they can't trust each other and the former is quite diabolical in his attempt to bomb an area in Canada where supplies can be shipped to England.Flynn takes the role of a Canadian, of German birth origin, who denounces Canada and is immediately removed from the police force there. Nazis take advantage of the situation and soon recruit him to go with them to the uppermost northern portion of the country to complete their evil plot. Gene Lockhart gives a fine supporting performance as a Canadian spy, a true patriot to the Third Reich, who learns what happens when you have completed your assignment and can now pose a hindrance.Flynn gives a strong performance here as a scorned Canadian working in counter-intelligence for them.This is certainly A World War 11 interesting film.

Considering this was a 1943 film, I was quite surprised and entertained by the story and great acting by many veteran actors. Errol Flynn,(Corporal Steve Wagner) was a Royal Canadian Mountie who found a man who was exhausted and found in deep snow. This man was Colonel Hugo Von Keller,(Helmut Dantine) who is a Nazi officer and also a pilot who was on a secret mission in Canada. These Nazi's entered the Hudson Bay area in a submarine from Germany and headed North Northwest across Canada through deep Arctic temperatures. Gene Lockhart,(Ernst) is a spy for the Nazi's and manages to contact Steve Wagner and use him as a guide under false pretensions. There is plenty of action and a very surprising ending. Enjoy