Frontier Rangers

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Frontier Rangers
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music by Raoul Kraushaar
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 1959 (1959)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$74,000 [1]
Box office$650,000 [1]

Frontier Rangers is a 1959 film composed of 3 episodes of the TV series Northwest Passage, The Gunsmith, The Bond Women, and The Burning Village (83 mn) (1959).

Contents

The film focuses on Major Robert Rogers along with his two other Rangers who were hunting a French and Indian War Spy. [2]

Reception

According to MGM records the movie earned $650,000 outside the US and Canada resulting in a profit of $159,000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. "Frontier Rangers (1959)". IMDb.