fine actor in the service of a sad movie . frontier warfare a imagine by an 8 year old . where to start . colonial troop who carefully refrain from butcher woman and child . a colonial america that have no african and even in indian settlement where many live a free men . swamp that run for 150 mile along lake champlain . hundred of native who run for it whenever confront by ten englishman . spencer tracy girdle . there be one small and mitigating incident that keep this from be 1 star flick represent the young and english woman who despise her rescuer . it never occur to rogers that this woman might actually prefer to live in a society that grant woman real political and personal power . war have become much more real since northwest passage and both on the screen and off . the movie have grow up and i be glad they do .