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Drums Along The Mohawk (DVD, 2004)

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Gilbert Martin takes his young bride Lana to Mohawk Valley just before the Revolutionary War where they are burned out by Indians. For six years Gilbert fights in the war as they both try to establish their homestead.

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EAN5060034571216

eBay Product ID (ePID)30865725

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleDrums Along the Mohawk

ActorClaudette Colbert, John Carradine, Eddie Collins, Edna May Oliver, Henry Fonda

DirectorJohn Ford

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageEnglish

Run Time100 Mins

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

CertificatePG

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Additional InformationDRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has returned with his well-born wife, Lana (Claudette Colbert), to his rustic cabin in the increasingly dangerous Mohawk River valley. At first unaccustomed to the harsh physical challenges of frontier life, Lana adjusts to the work at hand and is soon able to help her husband in the fields. Shortly after they learn that the colonies are at war with the British, their farmhouse is attacked and burned to the ground by a party of Tory-led Indians. The feisty Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver) provides temporary shelter for the couple, but it's only a matter of time before the Indians launch a more brutal assault. Save for THE QUIET MAN, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK contains the richest passages of pastoral imagery in Ford's entire canon, the visual beauty nearly upstaging the spectacular and terrifying Indian battles. The performances, particularly Oliver (who garnered an Oscar nomination) as the vinegary widow and the superbly stoic Fonda, enable Ford to again demonstrate the heroism and limitations of rugged individualism. The scenes of an Indian prisoner spread-eagled on a wagon and Gilbert's escape are repeated almost exactly in the 1982 dystopian classic THE ROAD WARRIOR.

Movie/TV TitleDrums Along The Mohawk

ComposerAlfred Newman

CinematographerRay Rennahan, Bert Glennon