Nineteen thirty-nine is often proposed as the movies' halcyon year, and three reasons why were directed by John Ford:
Stagecoach,
Young Mr. Lincoln, and
Drums Along the Mohawk. In that exalted company
Drums... would have to be accounted "merely superb"--even if it's the best film ever made about the American Revolution and, oh, only about eighth-best picture of its year.
Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play newlyweds in New York's Mohawk Valley at the time of the Revolutionary War. That war is more a distant rumor than a direct concern of people with cabins to raise, crops to harvest, and firstborn on the way. When it comes to their valley, in the form of hitherto-peaceable Indians whipped up by a gaunt Tory with an eyepatch (John Carradine), life changes... Learn More
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