Romance Road

Jan 29, 1938

0h 19m

★ 4.0

The railroad will go through with our bones for ballast

Overview

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.

Genres

Adventure

Music

Romance

Western

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Vitaphone Corporation

Romance Road Trailers

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Cast

Sergeant Shane Rollins

Walter Cassel

Dawn MacDonald

Anne Nagel

Flood

Craig Reynolds

Nina

Linda Perry

Baptiste LaGrange

Owen King

Trapper at Fight (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Angus MacDonald (uncredited)

Gordon Hart

Inspector Ramsey (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson

Workman (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Minister (uncredited)

Wade Lane

Daley (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Pierre (uncredited)

Paul Panzer

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