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Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939
Drama, Adventure
1h 44m
Before the Revolutionary War farmer Martin brings bride Magdelana the Mohawk Valley where they are burned out by Indians. Neighbors take them in and Martin joins the militia to fight the Indians. (imdb)
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Drums Along the Mohawk

1939
Drama, Adventure
1h 44m
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Rated 02 Jan 2010
93
54th
Pretty standard affair for Ford, but it's interesting seeing a film set around this time period. It has all Ford's myth-building and patriotic jingoism, but if you can swallow that for a bit it also has all of Ford's grim frontier realism and pragmatism. Some wonderful pastoral landscapes here, both at peace and aflame.
Rated 28 Jul 2009
30
8th
Racist, sexist, and cliche. I know it's supposedly a classic and a product of its time, but it's BORING.
Rated 27 Jan 2014
68
48th
To be frank, there's no story here: just a series of vignettes all kind of culminating into the sensation that we have the frontiersmen to thank for the best of America. Ford makes this moral, antiquated even then, work by focusing his efforts on the pictorial technicolor landscapes, and by studying the faces of his character actors, the latter being one of his greatest strengths.
Rated 24 Dec 2012
32
25th
A good-looking picture which struggles to develop characters or tell a story. Just one d--n thing after another
Rated 17 Feb 2011
40
6th
Lame acting and a jagged storyline make this hard to watch.
Rated 04 Jun 2015
60
89th
Impressive colors for the John Ford version of the Revolutionary War. There is a down to earth pacing about it too which I liked, but I wasn't always impressed with the staging and the overall structure of the story. Starts out nice with Henry Fonda & Claudette Colbert trying to establish themselves as a frontier family, but after that it's just random fires and false restarts. The real problems started to occur when Edna May Oliver entered the story. Wrong part and she became a distraction.
Rated 22 Sep 2013
76
53rd
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Rated 18 Aug 2008
80
58th
Another in Ford's line of films that take place in and around great figures, or in this case, great times. Set before and during the Revolutionary War, the story becomes larger than its two leads, eventually building to a celebration of the new country of thirteen colonies. Ford does a nice job mixing in humor (esp. with Edna May Oliver), though not as consistently as in some of his better films. Overall, an enjoyable experience.
Rated 27 Mar 2018
55
70th
American history as seen by John Ford.The film is really dated and many parts of the movie made me cringe.
Rated 27 Dec 2009
65
33rd
Despite the occasionally cheesy dialogue, the uber-patriotism, and the corny drinking jokes, this film offers some interesting insight into the pioneering that was still taking place very close to modern-day NYC in the 1770's. I enjoyed it for that aspect and how it in no way glorified warfare but instead showed the dirty, bloody, deadly truth of the Revolution. Worth seeing if you can handle Ford's style.
Rated 01 Feb 2010
3
45th
Dated but engrossing. The Technicolor is beautiful, and Fonda and Colbert are both good.
Rated 24 Jan 2021
68
66th
Has moments of real pictorial beauty-- the interiors are often stunning, as are scenes balancing light and rain--but the presentation of this historical moment is problematic politically as it's played relatively 'straight' (i.e. affirmative), so the racial stereotyping is difficult to reconcile with the overall vision of this emergent world. America was built on idealism, labour and bloodshed, and Ford's best films explore the complexity of these tensions in a way that is largely absent here.
Rated 21 Feb 2024
73
61st
There’s a certain level of what was this all for in the ending raise of the American Flag once you’ve seen the life drained from Fonda’s eyes. A film of sacrifice

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