Maintain the Right

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they tire of the repetitive routine, a superior officer tells them the story of another Northwest Mounted Policeman. The story shows the chase and capture of a killer by the policeman, with the respect he commanded causing an Indian tribe to return his dead body back to the post and also turning over the killer he tracked down, only to lose his life to disease while helping the tribe fight the same malady that killed him.

Pete Smith

Narrator

Chief John Big Tree

Chief

Iron Eyes Cody

Killer

Ted Mapes

Constable Woodruff

• Joseph M. NewmanDirector
• Willard Van der VeerDirector
• Buddy AdlerWriter
• Jerry HoffmanWriter
• Jack ChertokProducer

Release date

January 13, 1940

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

10m

Rated

NR

Genres

Adventure, Crime