Drums Along the Mohawk

Ahhhh, classic cinema! The Technicolor, the optimism, the stock characters, the racism! Coming to you from main man John Ford is a Western/War drama about Gil and Lana, two newlyweds who move to the countryside to start out their lives,... Full review

This is a movie that would never get made today in the same way because of the racism and sexism and while I don't mean to sound like a racist or a sexist, a remake wouldn't be anywhere near as... Full review

Drums Along the Mohawk is the story of newlyweds Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert and the trials they faced trying to make a life in the Mohawk River Valley during the Revolutionary War. The Upstate New York theater save for... Full review

I've used this movie in many history classes. It illustrates life during these turbulent times when people were moving to the frontier and just trying to live their lives in peace. However, other people had lived on those lands and... Full review

It is a strange truism about films concerning American History. While some of those films dealing with the Civil War are great (THE GENERAL, GONE WITH THE WIND) or highly respectable (THE RAID, GETTYSBURG, GLORY), this is less true about... Full review

This film has everything, drama, humor, and action. My favorite character is Mrs. McKlennar, played by the great Dame Edna May Oliver (also see her in A Tale of Two Cities). She's got the right combination of real independence, sauciness,... Full review

Other comments on this film quite well echo my sentiments: John Ford once again exhibits his mastery of the medium, with a minimum of the sentimentality to which he sometimes succumbed; a very young and handsome Henry Fonda wonderfully embodies... Full review

This is one great film to look at on a lazy afternoon. It is definitely the finest film John Ford ever directed without the use of John Wayne. The timing of the release of it was interesting due to the... Full review

There is a small *SPOILER* in the text below. This is one of my favorite John Ford films, although it usually is not ranked as one of his classics. There is enough action, pathos and downright patriotism to satisfy Ford... Full review

1939 was a banner year for great films--and certainly one of them was "Drums Along the Mohawk" in gorgeous early technicolor about a period in history not often used as the subject of a major film. Henry Fonda and Claudette... Full review

She and Fonda have zero appeal together, which makes sense in the early scenes of newlywed panic....aybe film historians are just being lazy when they lump Drums Along the Mohawk with John Ford's other 1939 classics, Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln ..... ... Full Review

But the landscapes aren't varied enough to make up for the underwritten characterizations and ho-hum action scenes. But petulant Colbert is woefully miscast, looking entirely out-of-place and befuddled by the prairies. ... Full Review

Ford's best films ( The Quiet Man , The Searchers , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ) usually have.....Fonda and Colbert lack chemistry, and the comedienne (best known for her roles in The Smiling Lieutenant , It Happened One Night and The Palm Beach Story ) looks terribly miscast.....the picture looks better than it really does.....contains at least a handful of his most beautifully composed moments..... ... Full Review

In Drums Along the Mohawk, this movie clearly needs to be rewritten in this day and age. You can see that the depiction of Native Americans is largely miscued assumptions and biased opinions by the director John Ford. ... Full Article

I had an interesting double feature last night of Steamboy, the most recent anime from the director of Akira, and Drums Along the Mohawk, John Ford's first color picture. ... Full Article

Considering that there are two African-American women in the Oscars race for best supporting actress - Viola Davis (" Doubt ") and Taraji P. Hanson (" Curious Case of Benjamin Button ") - it's a good time to take a... ... Full Article

by Jennifer M. Wood | Published October 2, 2007 Drums Along the Mohawk and Leave Her to Heaven --two classic films that were recently restored by DTS Digital Images utilizing the companys proprietary Lowry Process--will premiere at the 45th New... ... Full Article

Westerns have been declared dead more times than all the sheriffs of Tombstone, but like their own legendary heroes, they keep springing back to life in the public imagination. ... Full Article

Drums Along the Mohawk Stagecoach and with John Ford's other 1939 classics, Young Mr.Lincoln The Grapes of Wrath . It's also conveniently located on Ford's rsum right before his enduring 1940 masterpiece Drums Along the Mohawk The Lord of... ... Full Article