Northern Pursuit

Northern Pursuit
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRaoul Walsh
Written byLeslie T. White (story)
Frank Gruber
Alvah Bessie
William Faulkner (uncredited)
Produced byJack Chertok
StarringErrol Flynn
Julie Bishop
Helmut Dantine
CinematographySid Hickox
Edited byJack Killifer
Music byAdolph Deutsch
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • November 13, 1943 (1943-11-13)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
German
Budget$1,290,000[1]
Box office$3,252,000[1]
$1.5 million (US rentals)[2]

Northern Pursuit is a 1943 American World War II adventure thriller film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who tries to uncover a Nazi plot against the Allied war effort. The film was set in Canada during the early years of the war.

Walsh called the film a "quickie".[3] Filmink called it "one of Errol’s lesser war films and was far closer to the silliness of Desperate Journey than the more serious Edge of Darkness."[4]

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p. 24 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944, p. 54
  3. ^ Walsh, Raoul (1974). Each man in his time; the life story of a director. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 382.
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (November 17, 2019). "The Films of Errol Flynn: Part 3 The War Years". Filmink.