This is a delightful and hilariously refreshing adventure in the early days of Canada, when it was still all French while the British started to get some attention on it, very much by this rogue Radisson, who by Paul Muni makes the whole film, in good league with the slugger Laird Cregar, and they match each other perfectly. The serious argument of the film is the question of brandy. The British of New England see no harm in making profits by providing brandy for the Indians in exchange for exorbitant riches, the Indians not being able to take alcohol without serious consequences, while the English thought they could draw great advantages of this and did so, cynically and inhumanly. This case is also presented in the film, and Radisson the rogue is the one who reacts against it. This question is actually the main interest of the film, for while in the British America, later the U.S., this prepared the ground and set the stage for the general genocide of Indians in America, Canada chose a different direction of policy. There was to be a lot of abuse also there, especially in the notorious school system, but in Canada the Indians were never as cynically discarded and treated with atrociously condescending racism as in the U.S. There were elements of this in Canada as well of course, and the two main British characters here, John Sutton and Morton Lowry as lord Crewe and Gerald Hall, the brother of Lord Crewe's sweetheart, present this ugly form of colonialism, while one has to pay the price for it and the other learns to shift his position. It's above all a very entertaining film with wonderful fights and great scenery, but it is not all superficial and jolly as entertainment but also presents some very important historical arguments in the history of Canada.