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Northern Pursuit

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Northern Pursuit	label	Northern Pursuit
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Northern Pursuit	comment	Northern Pursuit is a 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn.A German submarine surfaces somewhere in the frosty wasteland of Northern Canada (Hudson Bay?). The submarine disgorges a party of Germans led by a Luftwaffe officer, Col. Hugo von Keller. Hugo, the other Germans, and their Inuit guides set off to destination unknown—until an avalanche in a mountain pass kills everyone in the party except for Keller.Keller staggers across the snowy plains of the Canadian north for a while until he collapses. Fortunately for him, he's picked up by a couple of Canadian Mounties, Steve (Errol Flynn) and Jim. Steve, who is the son of German immigrants, is rather excessively solicitous for Hugo's welfare, which makes Jim vaguely suspicious. When a second group of Mounties is dispatched to bring both Hugo and Steve in, Steve is so offended that he quits the service on the spot.Later, when Hugo escapes from a POW camp, Steve is arrested as a precautionary measure. He is so angry that he says in public that "Canada can go to the devil." A bitter, angry Steve is receptive when von Keller's American handler, Ernst Willis, approaches him and asks for help with von Keller's mission. What von Keller and Willis don't know is that Steve's disaffection with Canada and new sympathy for the Nazis is all a ruse, and he is actually working to infiltrate their group and thwart von Keller's mysterious mission.
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Northern Pursuit / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Northern Pursuit / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: Steve's girlfriend Laura gets Jim to tell her that they captured a German spy. He swears her to secrecy. Less than five minutes later she's telling her father.
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Northern Pursuit / int_254bd239	type	Gasoline Lasts Forever
Northern Pursuit / int_254bd239	comment	Gasoline Lasts Forever: The disassembled plane was hidden in the Canadian far north sometime before the start of the war. In 1943, after they put it together it starts right up.
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Northern Pursuit / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
Northern Pursuit / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: A German mission to drop some commandos in Canada, where said commandos will retrieve a long-hidden plane and bomb a crucial waterway.
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Northern Pursuit / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Northern Pursuit / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Steve is fired from the Mounties for pro-German leanings. In actuality it's a ruse to infiltrate the German spy ring.
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Northern Pursuit / int_73e7dcb6	type	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy
Northern Pursuit / int_73e7dcb6	comment	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: Subverted. Steve throws his gun after he runs out of ammo—but at the light in the tunnel, to knock it out.
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Northern Pursuit / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
Northern Pursuit / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Steve and the Mounties are running a scheme in which Steve pretends to change his allegiance to Germany in order to infiltrate Von Keller's group. It only partially works, as a suspicious von Keller has Laura brought along on their trip as a hostage.
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Northern Pursuit / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
Northern Pursuit / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: The Trust Password variant. German agents recognize each other this way: the first agent says "Cold country, Canada," and the second says "You think this is cold, you ought to go up north where I'm going."
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Northern Pursuit / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Northern Pursuit / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Laura's goofy father Angus McBain has a habit of lapsing into this.
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Northern Pursuit / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Northern Pursuit / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Von Keller demands that Willis, an older and not terribly fit man, accompany them on the trek to the plane. When Willis can't keep up, von Keller shoots him. Willis even says "I'm not useless!" right before von Keller pulls the trigger.
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Northern Pursuit / int_a8221f1f	type	SpiritualPredecessor
Northern Pursuit / int_a8221f1f	comment	Spiritual Predecessor: This film can considered to be Cliffhanger except set in WWII Canada with the Nazis being the invaders rather than Treasury robbers, as they have a premise about a small Dwindling Party of terrorists stranded on a snowy mountainous terrain (which gets a dose of Scenery Porn) and trying to escape with the aid of their hostage, while the audience would cheer for The Hero to put a stop to them.
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Northern Pursuit / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Northern Pursuit / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Von Keller enters Canada in uniform so he won't be shot as a spy—and he wears a Luftwaffe uniform. It turns out the secret mission is to assemble a hidden plane and bomb "the main waterway between the United States and Canada" (the Erie Canal, maybe?).
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Northern Pursuit / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Northern Pursuit / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: The Canadians devise a ruse in which Steve is fired from the Mounties, and joins a German spy ring. It's all a charade.
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Northern Pursuit / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Northern Pursuit / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Steve breaks his cover to warn Jim when Jim approaches their party. As von Keller's mooks are about to shoot an unaware Jim, Steve begs them not to and promises to get Jim to surrender. Steve approaches Jim and gets him to put down his rifle—and von Keller has Jim shot.
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Northern Pursuit / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Northern Pursuit / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The local guides urge von Keller to avoid the mountain pass and take the longer but safer route around. Keller refuses, and everyone in the party but him are killed by an avalanche on the mountain pass.
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