Hudson's Bay (1940)

Name: Hudson's Bay
Director: Irving Pichel
Released: 1940-12-24
Rating: 5.818
Cast: Paul Muni, John Sutton, Laird Cregar, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price

AdventureHistory

95 min

"A FABULOUS FIGURE WHO SAVED A NEW WORLD-FOR THE RULER WHO HAD ORDERED HIM HANGED!"

Plot Summary

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.