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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drums Along the Mohawk (Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver; TIME...
Drums Along the Mohawk (Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver; TIME...
Drums Along the Mohawk (Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver; TIME...
...20th Century-Fox) continues Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck's probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal firing gets monotonous...
...about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...