I'd like to recommend NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940), where Spencer Tracey, Robert Young, and Walter Brennen are fighting Indians. Tracey is Rogers of Roger's rangers, and in the french and Indian War the rangers raid and destroy St. Francis, an Indian village that has been raiding whites for years. A great, stirring action movie with wonderful locations and a solid, rousing story and soundtrack. When the rangers attack the Indians, no mercy is shown, and it's based on the actual attack, as well as the rangers almost starving to death on their retreat. Based on the novel by Kenneth Roberts (really worth reading), it is a strong, white-race film. Rogers is what a soldier and leader should be.
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