A FABULOUS FIGURE WHO SAVED A NEW WORLD-FOR THE RULER WHO HAD ORDERED HIM HANGED!
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
- 5.8
- 1940
- Released
- 1h 35m
Paul Muni
Pierre Esprit Radisson
John Sutton
Lord Edward Crewe
Laird Cregar
Gooseberry
Gene Tierney
Barbara Hall
Vincent Price
King Charles II
Nigel Bruce
Prince Rupert
Virginia Field
Nell Gwyn
Morton Lowry
Gerald Hall
Robert Greig
Sir Robert
Chief Thundercloud
Orimha
Frederick Worlock
English Governor
Montagu Love
Governor D'Argenson
Ian Wolfe
Mayor
Chief John Big Tree
Chief
Jody Gilbert
Germaine
Florence Bates
Duchess (scenes deleted)Don Ackerman
(uncredited)
Eugene Borden
Sentry (uncredited)David Cavendish
Councillor (uncredited)Sonny Chorre
Indian (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody
Indian (uncredited)Robert Cory
Orderly (uncredited)Dorothy Dearing
Girl (uncredited)
Jean Del Val
Captain (uncredited)Constant Franke
Sentry (uncredited)
Denis Greene
John Randall (uncredited)
Lumsden Hare
Capt. Alan MacKinnon (uncredited)Boone Hazlett
Indian (uncredited)Keith Hitchcock
Footman (uncredited)Lilyan Irene
Maid (uncredited)Bob Lugo
Indian (uncredited)Bob Milton
(uncredited)Joe Molina
Indian (uncredited)Lionel Pape
Groom of the Chamber (uncredited)Andrew Pena
Indian (uncredited)John Rogers
Sailor (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield
Clerk (uncredited)
Jay Silverheels
Indian (uncredited)Jimmy Spencer
Indian (uncredited)Tony Urchel
Indian (uncredited)Eric Wilton
Councillor (uncredited)Released
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- #canada
- #fur trapping
- #historical fiction
- #18th century
- #fur trade
Reviews
This is quite a fun pioneering romp through the pages of the early history of the British in Canada. Centred around the exploits of Pierre Radisson (Paul Muni), his larger than life sidekick "Gooseberry" (Laird Cregar) and the somewhat discredited Lord Crewe (John Sutton), the story depicts their efforts to export hundreds of thousands of extremely valuable pelts to Europe, Muni is on great form a